:rant Portable hard drives

[raised by monkeys]

So ive been doing uni part time whilst working full time, doing counselling with kids plus parent group work. At the a$$ end of my degree.

A while ago, after completing my first year at uni or so my laptop I accidentally broke my laptop screen. The hard drive from the laptop was put into a casing and used as a portable.

Fast forward a year or so later, the once laptop hard drive become corrupt. I bought a new WD portable hard drive, had a computer shop salvage %70 of my files and away I went.

Fast forward another year and had issues with the new portable HD. Lucky I had backed everything up on my laptop, so minus a couple of PDF's I could swallow this issue.

Fast forward another 6 months I had an issue with my laptop after a late night studying and spilt a bit of coffee on it. Took it into the computer centre again and although as they said my laptop my last 2 weeks, it may last 2 decades. Depends how long it takes for one of the damaged nodes to corrode.

Straight into Harvey Norman I go and buy a portable SSD HD. Expensive, but it can be used as a weapon. Save all my work on to the HD. Everything is safe an sound.

3 months later, the inlet to the HD decided to come out with the usb cord. SSD components are attached straight to the hardware. Looking like it may not be able to be fixed. On this HD is a 4 year degree with multiple late nights study.

(I did try the cloud online back up but with only a few files it reached it limit and it was asking for $$ so I threw that idea in the bin.)

I've had a bloody gut full of PC's and hard drives!