Backups

I've got lots on my plate as I have an upcoming trip. I'm looking forward to doing some traveling. Along the way I plan to take footage and images for my portfolio and this website. 

A thing I've recently been reminded of is that technology will continue to evolve. With my hard drive and my laptop recently going kaput (died completely), how important it is for me to back up my most important files onto a cloud server or somewhere on the internet. Not just any provider will do. I need a vendor that can provide stability, ease of use, adequate hard drive space and most importantly is security and encryption. Google is good as it provides free space but the problem with Google is its' invasiveness. Privacy with google, in my humble opinion, is only a facade. I'm sure there is something on the internet that can provide all those services but I need to do the research to locate it. 

I'm also now beginning to back up to a SSD as it has no moving parts. My old backup to an old SATA drive is no longer reliable. I recently experienced this when I connected my old 54oo RPM SATA to my working computer. It was encrypted so I punched in my code. However the hard disk would not reboot. My computer could not find the disk or the files. It was unrecognizable. I tried multiple ways. I finally stripped off the plastic housing and directly connected it to a SATA dock rather than by USB 3. Still would not read. So I will have to take it to a repair shop by which I can remove the files and transfer them onto a SSD. 

My 17 inch Mac Book Pro also died. It was a late 2011 model with a 2.4 GHz speed. I fried the logic board. The tech I had brought it to cleaned it up but forewarned me that it may have damaged the logic board as it has gotten too hot. He was correct. It was overheating. After 1 month of heavy use, the screen started to go bizzerk. With the use of rendering videos, Photoshop, uploading video files simultaneously the laptop has finally died. The screen would first start to freeze. I would reboot then start over. Same thing happened a few minutes later. Sure enough, the logic board finally died. It wouldn't even reboot. 

So I've learned my lesson. I will back up to a cloud server as well as a SSD.