So I finally got around to getting an external hard drive for the MacBook, on the advice of the new MacIT dude. This guy was expensive, but he seemed to know what he was talking about and resolved some issues.
Still haven’t taken the iPad, which he diagnosed as defective, over to the Apple store. I’ve come to dread dealing with those folks, whose customer service seems to be going down the tubes. But need to do that: he thinks there’s an outside chance they may give me a new one! If so, he paid for himself in one sentence…
He suggested Western Digital’s “My Passport” drive. It’s reviewed pretty well, and he wasn’t the first IT type to recommend it. So I ordered one from Amazon while he was here in the office, to be sure I managed to actually get the right one. Price was reasonable — around $70. It arrived forthwith in the mail.
It’s amazingly fast: backed up the entire, vast hard drive — over 775,000 files — in an hour or two. And now, hallelujah brothers and sisters, I can use Time Machine on this computer.
IT Dude says you can disconnect it, go on about your business, and reconnect, at which point Time Machine will back up whatever you did while you were away. Very convenient. 🙂
Anyone use Arq with Amazon’s cloud or Google Drive? I’m not crazy about storing my data on someone else’s cloud, nor do I need yet another monthly bill. Admittedly, 60 bucks a year isn’t much…but it all adds up. Here a nick, there nick, every where a nick: before long what you have is a large gouge out of your budget.
Still now that I have Amazon Prime, I wonder if that would be worth looking into.