SOCIAL: A note for Mac users: Please Use Time Machine / Time Capsule

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A M E N...

a week after we got an external hard drive and started using Time  
Machine my hard drive died a painful death of squeaky noises. i'm on a  
laptop and lost one file between backups.

thank you for helping us deep!

: )
celeste

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On Mar 10, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Amandeep Jawa wrote:

> IF YOU USE A MAC, I HOPE YOU READ THIS.  For those of you on  
> Windows, ummmm.....  good luck with that.
>
> ----------
>
> Hey folks -
>
> I *really* *really* want you to buy a Time Capsule or start using  
> Time Machine.  And I can get you a discount (15% off!).  No, Apple  
> doesn't need the money. No, I don't get a cut or even work on the  
> Time Capsule team.
>
>
> I ask you to do this because I care about you.  And specifically,  
> because I know the horrors of data loss.  Think of your iTunes  
> library, or your iPhoto pictures or all those things you've written  
> or all those emails that you want to save.  Some day your hard drive  
> will die.  Or you'll drop your Mac.  Or something else bad will  
> happen.  And on that day you will either say:
>
> a) I'm glad 'Deep made me buy a Time Capsule.
> b) F$&^k, I wish I listened to 'Deep and bought a Time Capsule.
>
>
> So what am I talking about?
>
> - The new MacOS X Leopard has a feature called Time Machine.  It is  
> really cool "you never have to think about it after you turn it on"  
> back up service that will automatically save your work, hourly,  
> daily, and monthly.  It also makes it super easy to retrieve things  
> from the past and even kinda FUN to do so.   All Time Machine needs  
> to silently and constantly save-your-ass is an external hard drive  
> (they're pretty cheap* these days) just plug it in to your Mac &  
> turn on Time Machine & point it at the drive. Done.  Ass saved.
>
> See the pretty pictures:
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
>
>
> - If you use a laptop, like most of us, things get slightly more  
> complicated because though you could use Time Machine and just  
> remember to plug in a hard drive periodically so Time Machine could  
> do it's thing, I know you won't.  I know I won't.  That is where  
> Time Capsule comes in.  Time Capsule is a new Apple WiFi (Airport)  
> Base Station with a Big Hard Drive built in.  It is designed to be  
> used with Time Machine, but you never have to plug it in to your  
> Mac.  It will just work quietly in the background and wirelessly be  
> saving your ass once an hour all the time.    It is also a nice WiFi  
> base station - so you can replace your older WiFi base station with  
> the latest tech and better range all in one fell swoop.  And, if you  
> are a multiple Mac household, it will back up all your Macs - nice.   
> Also the quality of the hard drive in a Time Capsule will probably  
> make it much less prone to HD failure than a lot of drives that you  
> would buy for yourself.
>
> More pretty pictures:
> http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/
>
> I can get you Leopard for 15% and a Time Capsule for 15% off.  It is  
> worth it. trust me.
>
> I really really hope some of you take me up on this.  I honestly  
> think this is important.  Most of us have so much stuff that means  
> so much to us on our computers.  This is the best way to guard  
> against the data loss that is inevitably coming. I hate to be a fear- 
> monger.  But hard drive loss/failure is honestly inevitable.  I  
> can't guarantee that you won't ever lose something  from your  
> computer, but with Time Machine / Time Capsule your risks are  
> seriously reduced.
>
>
> Help me help you :-)
> 'deep
>
>
> * Hard drive are cheap in the literal sense - you can find them as  
> low as $125 for 500 GB, but compared to the value of your data they  
> are INSANELY cheap.
>
>
>
>
>
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> Amandeep Jawa
> ----------------------------------
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