Christopher Breen from Playlist explains a story wher two people are sharing some data throught an iPod shuffle when, suddenly, the player dies and some data only existing in it is lost forever. Being it an iPod shuffle it’s impossible to get into disk mode and try to recover the data with specialized software, as you could do with other models of iPod.
What’s the moral of the history? In first place, it’s not a good idea to use a MP3 player as a harddisk, be it an iPod or any other brand. Why use a complex system when you can get a USB Pendrive so cheaply?
In second place, never trust your data to a single media. If you are moving your files to a pendrive and deleting the originals, that’s not a backup, the originals are only in the portable disk and if it gets lost or is broken you have lost your files.
You should always have, at least, two copies of the data and try to keep it up to date. It’s even better if you can have more than two copies and in different physical places. One business I know lost all accounting data from one year when the ofice caught fire, as the original data and the backups where in the same place.
Really, an USB external harddisk is very cheap. For sure, it’s cheaper than losing really important data or having to recover it from a dead drive.
From | Microsiervos.
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