{"id":23845,"date":"2019-01-04T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2019-01-04T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:59:08","slug":"throwing-storage-at-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/throwing-storage-at-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Storage at the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ihnatko.com\/2019\/01\/02\/throwing-storage-at-the-problem\/\">Andy Ihnatko<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ihnatko.com\/2019\/01\/02\/throwing-storage-at-the-problem\/\">\n<p>Someday, you&rsquo;re going to spot on online deal for an external drive at a time when you happen to be flush with cash and with no financial perils on the horizon. You should buy that drive. When it arrives, stick it in a closet. Don&rsquo;t even open the box.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because having a fresh, empty drive empowers <em>so&nbsp;many&nbsp;solutions<\/em> to PC problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fully endorsed: you should have an extra drive&mdash;not one you are relying on for backups&mdash;that you have no hesitation in erasing so that you can use it to solve whatever problem crops up. But don&rsquo;t leave it unopened. First, you want to make sure that it works, didn&rsquo;t come with bad sectors, etc. Second, you can periodically prime it with a clone your boot drive. Depending on your emergency need, you can always quickly erase it if necessary. But if it turns out that you need to use it as a replacement boot drive, having even a month-old clone means you&rsquo;re just a quick SuperDuper Smart Update away from being back in business.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ihnatko.com\/2019\/01\/02\/throwing-storage-at-the-problem\/\">\n<p><em>Option 2<\/em>: Skip the stopgap solution and replace the internal SSD straight away. This would have been the obvious answer if this were any <em>other<\/em> $2000 laptop. Alas, I am blessed with an Apple product. This blessing is accompanied by the unavailability of standard upgrade and replacement components.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>How I miss that iBook (Dual USB), where you could literally swap in your backup drive.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Ihnatko: Someday, you&rsquo;re going to spot on online deal for an external drive at a time when you happen to be flush with cash and with no financial perils on the horizon. You should buy that drive. When it arrives, stick it in a closet. Don&rsquo;t even open the box. Why? Because having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-01-04T20:59:10Z","apple_news_api_id":"7201b15d-f607-409a-adc2-d9e4458703f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-01-04T20:59:11Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcgGxXfYHQJqtwtnkRYcD8g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,30,1609,174,369],"class_list":["post-23845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-storage","tag-superduper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23846,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions\/23846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}