Hurricane Preparedness Week: May 15-21, 2016

Season Five is on its way to Florida (Hurricane Season).

Have you prepared?

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/weatherreadynation/hurricane_preparedness.html

 

1=0 2=1 3=2

When putting your Emergency Action Plan together there needs to be a certain level of redundancy.

So I’ll tell you the story about why you haven’t heard from me in a couple weeks.

Below you can see two SATA 1TB drives and two 120GB SSD’s

Now the issue was that the power supply on my Desk Top went out and needed replacing. No biggie, simply un-bolt it from the case, unplug the cords, install the new one, plug it in, and voila.

Four fried drives. Poof all at once. Turned on the power and POOF, a big puff of brown smoke. Now I thought I was redundant. Working drives, backup drives. What could go wrong?

 

No one I have talked to has ever heard of something like this happening before. Guess it’s just my electric personality. On the down side the Mother board was also damaged. On the up side I had a Lap Top I could access and have archived some of the business data on an external drive. Unfortunately not often enough, but enough not to have lost everything.

SO where am I going with this. If I was in a situation where I lost the only two items in my Bug-Out-Bag needed for a unique purpose I would maybe be up the creek without the paddle. Ergo,

1=0 2=1 3=2

Please keep in mind that when developing your equipment plan that most items sold as “Survival Gear” are usually a one-time item that are not intended to last for very long. Spend the $$$ to get quality gear, get three of them, and distribute them so they cannot all be lost at once.

Me, when the Desk Top comes back, I’ll invest in a Third drive, external, about 4TB w/Cloud.

Till Next Time

“Be Safe”