My $4000 Mistake
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2018
- Here is the video I posted a preview of back in January - in this video I talk about a mistake that cost me $4000, and how you can avoid it from happening to you!
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As she’s talking, I’m over here on Amazon putting another hard drive in my cart 😂
cdozen vlogs $600.00 to recover my Seagate usb drive. Never will buy another Seagate again. My drive wasn't a full year.
AwesomeBlackDude what brand would you suggest?
Seagate or Western Digital are market leaders pretty much, Hitachi is up there. No company has a 100% flawless track-record. Anecdotal evidence of failure saying nothing. You can dig up nightmare stories on any product you'll ever find.
That said, Id recommend a portable SSD, like the Samsung ones, Harddrives are vunerable to shocks, vibrations and movement, especially when running. A SSD doesn't have any moving parts so it's a lot more resistant for traveling and the like. It's a lot more expensive too per GB though. Hope that helps.
lol im doing same thing ! i have WD 8T thinking to get WD 4T just for back up . dont need all 8T to back up
Same here
20 seconds into the video and i already started to backup all my files hahah
Same thing... backing up now!
Ommmmmmmg saaaame
Damn Me too!!! I got scared they'd crash while I was watching this video
haha
I've been doing IT for 25 years. $3000 for expedited service on a 3TB is pretty normal. You'll find places that advertise for a lot less, but when you start pushing for a fast turn around the price goes way up.
1. If you have to have a backup drive, don't travel with a spinning hard drive. Use an SSD hard drive instead.
2. Data is NOT backed up if it is just on an external drive. It is only backed up IF you have TWO or more copies of every file in TWO different places. It is just copied to another drive, not backed up if you put a file on an external drive. One copy on your working machine or a work drive plugged into the desktop/laptop, one copy on an external drive, one copy online -- that is well backed up. Amazon online storage is pretty fast for me with my internet for some reason, but I also have files on Google and Dropbox.
3. Rather than copy them to a drive while traveling, just have a ton of memory cards for your camera and don't delete the cards until you get back home (this only works if you are organized and not prone to losing things). Then you have an exact original copy on your cards, and a copy on your travel laptop/drive where you were working with them, and hopefully on your online storage too.
4. If you have a camera with two memory card slots, have the camera send the RAW files to the better card/slot and a JPEG copy to the second card. Then if the camera or the first card fails you still have the JPEGs on the second card. You can get A LOT of JPEGs on the second card so you can potentially "back up" an entire trip to JPEG on one card.
Thank you so so much for all this helpful information! Really do appreciate you sharing your knowledge about the subject with myself and others.
Yeah @GoAttack! I know a company that lost someone's drive and their insurance had to pay the customer, not sure how much. Then they actually found the drive and she was like uh-uh I'm keeping the money lol
My wife's friend had her laptop in for service once and they dropped her drive and she didn't do anything -- I told her she should have made them send it in for recovery but she was too nice. I put it in the freezer for a couple days and it came back to life just barely long enough to get her kid's pictures off -- I didn't think that would work but the internet was actually helpful for once :)
@@JoshuaBoldt i was wondering if ssd is stronger (in terms of survival) compared to hdd? I red something about ssd having worse time when its corrupted. Please enlighten me!
Cheers
Joshua Boldt thanks for the info!
SSD Hard Drive? 😂
the only logical reason why jessica and mango street released a video on the same day with the same topic is because this is the universe telling us to back up our files. BACK UP YOUR FILES PEOPLE!!!!
I made this video (and used this exact title) back in December and posted a preview of it on my instagram Dec 9, 2017*. I did not copy anyone. This video was scheduled for a specific date but I decided to release it early. Thank you guys for your continued support & watching. Love you all.
Don't mind the naysayers. Keep shining bright, Jessica! Also, thank you for sharing your experience. It's VERY appreciated.
Have you looked into RAID systems? I think that would be a great solution for you to "backup your backups". I wouldn't be confident with just cloud storage and extra hard drives if it were my livelihood. Good luck, I just discovered your channel and I love it!
Have you heard of Backblaze? It's $5/month and is a good option for an extra backup.
amazon prime has unlimited storage for images including raw files... take a look, might find it interesting ;)
U r awesome..... n soooooo cute.
you are legit looking like an angel in the thumbnail just had to say before watching
omg thankkk youuu beautiful! I must come see you soon!!
Soooo tru🙌🏼
Angelic AF
She's legit lookin' like an angel all the time lol
The Loobis How? That's a compliment
Tar mar I agree! I know you commented 2 years ago but I had to come into comments. Her face is just so mesmerizing because her beauty comes naturally.
Everyone in the comments talking about Mango street..People can experience similar things and tell their own story!We support you Jessica! Thanks for making this video.
Zoe Jean its not even that, she made this video couple months ago lol
Right!!
Warning About DROPBOX. I had a dropbox account but hadnt used it in a while. So when i went to sign into my account the other day. I got a message that it was DELETED due to inactivity. Like WTH? It doesnt matter how long I go. Those are my files and I should be able to access them whenever. They did say they may be able to recover my files but that didnt sound too promising. Smh
I remember getting an email from them saying that I hadn't used my account in over two years and had to sign in within 30 days to keep it active. I guess they were trying to clear out some server space by culling inactive accounts.
Oh my god thank you so much for telling us this. You might’ve saved me so much 😭🙌🏼 THIS NEEDS MORE LIKES AND NEEDS TO GET TO THE TOP ASAP
Haleema Nur They are YOUR files stored for free on THEIR servers. And if your computer is properly setup with Dropbox, it should connect to Dropbox everyday. I really don’t see a problem with Dropbox. This is a none issue. Any free service will shut down an account after a year or two of inactivity.
Happened to my MEGA account lol I kept procrastinating for signing in but it's fine there wasn't anything important
Also, Dropbox isn't a backup, because it doesn't protect you from user error. Accidentally delete all files in your dropbox folder? Deletions are happily replicated to the rest of your devices.
Make sure you have a legit backup solution. A copy of everything on multiple devices.
Why are people so quick to create drama where there isn't any? You cannot film and edit a video of this quality in less than 3 hours. Clearly Jess released this video early to avoid the exact claims everyone is making. Ideas are not copyrighted. Content is. This is Jessica's original video and original story.
I was gonna roast but I saw 112 comments and I was like it's already done
Careless about the OP, this is a technical response to you: this kinda of VLog video takes 10min. to film and 20 min to edit..... be real.
Oh god girl, I hope this NEVER happens to anyone again. You were so professional still and managed to push through and have a great time with us in Australia. Come back soon ❤ (I don't wanna have anymore Hard drive funerals LMFAO)
I LOVE YOU!!!
I used to work at a photography studio and the first thing we did, was back up every photo session on a blank dvd. then we did our processing off of the hard drive and then backed up some of the processed and retouched images on another DVD and filed everything away. There we a few hard drives that died on us for no reason so there were times that we had to work off the original shots and re-retouch everything (if we hadn't burned the edited discs). Pain in the butt, but it definitely saved our butts a few times. Keep your chin up girl. Thanks for sharing!
While everyone's complaining about this having the same title as Mangostreets video today, I am just really happy that I get to watch & enjoy both :)
Rosa Boer AGREEEEEED!! Two of my favorite RUclipsrs talking about the same topic shows the pure importance of it and it’s obviously that common if they both make a video related to the topic!!
Jessica , you have been my favorite photographer for almost 2 years now and I look up to you and your creativity. Although I am soooo sorry this happened to you, I am glad you are sharing with us that nobody is perfect and mistakes do happen. I unfortunately wasn’t able to retrieve my files from my broken hard drive back in July but, like you, I was able to learn a very important lesson. Thank you for sharing 💕
this is one of the most educational video's i've seen on this channel. it feels very genuine and i'm happy to hear my hard drive isn't the only one to crash.
HUGE THANKS FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO! Was literally thinking about getting a back up hard drive for my back ups this week! Need to do it. My MacBook hardrive failed out of nowhere last year and I had to pay a hefty fee to get it all fixed and updated/upgraded so I couldn't afford to buy the new lens I wanted! Got it now though wooo wooo!! Love your videos and your work Jessica! You're my fave!
I've two backups for my original files. I've two backup computers as well. If anything goes down, I can continue working the next minute.
EXPLAIN YOUR PROCESS A BIT MORE PLEASE....
Teoh hi!!!
The easiest solution for this would be to invest in a NAS (Network attached storage) device with multiple hard drive bays.
There is a Buffalo branded device you can buy for about 100 USD which takes four drives.
You save files to multiple drives at the same time and when full, you store them separately and if one dies, you always have a backup.
You can also use it as cloud storage so you can read and write to it remotely.
Apollo Mead x
Teoh Yi Chie too much extra work aghhhh
UGH it's the WORST thing to happen. I have had the worst luck - THREE of mine have stopped working in the last year and a half. But I've learned now the hard way to keep my stuff in 2+ places !
It's the worst thing? I thought getting cancer and living in agony is pretty bad
I was in a photography school in Brussels. For my Senior Thesis in photography,i had to take and print about 15 pictures about one theme,and do a little exposition.I was doing a photo reportage about a farm,and so i had to shoot there frequently. 2 months from my senior thesis,just after a GREAT shooting session,i put everything on my computer,and delete all from my memory card because i needed space to shoot something else. Two or three days later,my computer just crashed,and the guy from the informatic shop succeed at restore it all,exept the photos of this amazing photo session at the farm. I get back to the farm to take new pictures to replace the others,but they weren't as good at all.The teachers told us to ALWAYS BACKUP, but i had not enough money to buy one hard drive
A few years later,i learned the lesson and get an hard drive. That summer, a web magazine about music hired me to take pictures at one festival. I wasn't paid,but they paid for the expense (food and drink tickets,entrance at he festival etc..). I shoot and I take really great pictures of the artists,i frequently backup on my hard drive.The festival ends,i come back home and start editing.Then i go to sleep. A few days later,i finally have time to edit the rest of the pictures of the festival,but when i plug my hard drive, the same thing happend that for you. The pictures were just gone forever . I looked soooo unprofessional,and they never hired me again.
BACKUP YOUR BACKUPS,she's right.
Even when you talk about serious problems you manage to make us smile...
Can you do more of the "___ photographers shoot the same model"? I love those series! But I also love the behind the scene
Watched this and the mango street video, now I’ve saved $5700
Edit: I don’t think Jessica copied mango street tho, anyone can talk about backing up data, and it’s not possible to make a copy w/in an hour right after the mango street video was uploaded. Still enjoyed both this and the mango street video and a huge fan of both!
Min Andy Choi lmao 😂 my favorite comment so far 😭🙌🏼
HAHA hard drive backup party!! love it LOL
you're invited to mine!! :D
For a professional I would expect a RAID setup for important and/or sensitive files.
RAID isn't backup but it's a decent way to at least have some redundancy with your data.
Jessica, I’ve been binge watching your videos (discovered you yesterday). You have great tips and tricks!!! Looking forward to watching more videos :)
We love you Jessica!! You're one of my favorite RUclipsrs ♥️♥️
I feel for you. I have unfortunately lost my files many times through drive failure. I always forget after a few months to back up my back ups! And then another drive will fail. Cloud servers are ok but they sometimes don't store the whole file and only store a small jpeg file. Any good ideas let me know as well please. Love your videos Jessica, you are so beautiful. :-)
Amazon S3, Amazon glacier
Get a raid system, it's weird that some people call themselves professionals like her for example but don't do basick backup or have multiple drive system like cheaper RAID versions.
I have not heard of Raid, but I will take a look thanks.
Thanks for the tip.
I would recommend a portable SSD and if you have Amazon Prime, back it up on Amazon Drive since it's included.
I'm so grateful that you posted this. I'm a pro photographer, but i think much like you and other young photographers i haven't thought of everything, and i've got a little complacent with how I feel about my hard drives in my day to day routine. l just realised i haven't even bought cases for them all, like i didnt even think of that and i have thought of so much other stuff to do that is not as important as that. I'm gonna sort the crap out of my hard drives and create mirrors because i can't allow myself to have another catastrophic mistake like the one in 2013 where i managed to leave my camera on a bus and never got it back
Just found your channel and am currently binge watching! Great content, thanks so much for sharing 😄
The day my 1TB harddrive started making the ticking noise was heartbreaking... 😭 Now I use 3 different ones.
By the way, what kind of lighting do you use for these videos? (Been staring into your eyes to figure it out 😂)
I swear she could do stand up if she needed a side gig. She's always back at it with the jokes she's got jokes for days! On a serious note i double back up(ssd) and encrypt everything.
LMAOOO thank you!!!
AYYYY :)
Yesssssssss her personality made me subscribe. She's not cocky acting like some others I watch. She's just Jessica and I love that about her! Oh and yes I'd listen to her stand up😂
I know right!?!?! She is awesome! I love when she goes into her alter ego voice or whatever it's great!
Congratulations on hitting 1K btw!
Girl you look so good!!😍 And this kind of thing happened to me before it is not fun trust me.
Backup is so important! Thanks for sharing with us, Jessica.
Your mistake was more expensive than mango street. 😞
Doesn’t really matter what kind of drive you use, they all fail. Backup isn’t backup unless you, at minimum, have 3 backups, across 2 different mediums, and have 1 offsite. Offsite doesn’t have to be cloud based but is easier- if you rely on swapping drives with friends etc, you’re more likely to get lazy or forget.
Dropbox isn’t a great solution, it’s slow and more sync than backup and can get expensive. You could use the free unlimited image backup with Google - sure they’ll be downsized but it’s free and an added offsite copy.
I personally replicate to a 4 bay raid array NAS and offload that to Backblaze - any really important or sensitive documents will be encrypted and replicated across several sync platforms like tresorit, Dropbox, and OneDrive.
Looks like you got a lot of people to back up. That’s seriously priceless, and helps so many people.
You AND mango street getting me today for not doing a good job at backing up my hard drives. It’s true though, it’s something in the back of my mind that I’ve always been scared of. Thanks to you guys I’ve just invested in backblaze for online storage and I’m spending the day tomorrow updating my back-ups across all 4 of my drives. Thanks for the reminder!
I prefer Backblaze for my offsite storage. It’s cheaper, offers unlimited data, and it will search out what’s changed on your system and attached drives rather than you having to find everything and drag and drop.
As at least one other person mentioned, an SSD is more durable. Even if you aren’t traveling with them, good quality SSDs will outlast hard disks and, since you are traveling with it, it’s just that extra peace of mind. They aren’t as prone to things like impact damage, etc. Still a good idea to put it in a case though. And, it’s worth it to consider something like a Pelican waterproof case. SSDs are more expensive, but they also speed up your workflow.
All of my critical data that I back up locally is on at least three drives. For my system SSD, I have it backed up to three external HDDs. My photo and video catalog drive, which is what I use for more storage and don’t usually work from it, I have backed up to a portable external drive and a desktop external drive. My entertainment drive, which is just movies and TV shows, I have backed up to just one external drive.
To perform my backups, on my Mac, I use an application called SuperDuper! that will make full clones of the drives and, by having the paid version, will seek out the data that has changed since my last backup so that the process goes pretty quickly as long as I’m performing the backups on a regular and frequent basis. My process, after a shoot, as much as possible anyway, is to transfer the RAW files to the internal SSD, transfer them also to my catalog drive, and back up my catalog drive to at least one of the backups before I even start doing anything at all with the photos.
When I travel, I carry my laptop, a backup drive for it, my catalog drive, and a backup drive for that and leave the other set of backup drives at home. I also try to leave all the image, video, and audio files on their media cards, unless I absolutely have to reformat a card to reuse it. It’s also a good idea to use cameras with dual slots, make backups as you capture, and, ideally, hand off the backups to someone else you’re traveling with, or, at the very least, carry them in a bag separate from your other copies. That way, anything new is given an additional layer of protection since it isn’t with the backups at home.
My drives are also on planned cycles of replacement. Even if they’re still fully functional, I don’t wait until a drive has failed to replace it. Depending on the particular drive, how heavily it’s used, how heavily it’s traveled, etc., I generally only use drives that are older than 3 years as redundant backups, with the exception of SSDs. Spinning disk drives slow down as they age and the capacity becomes inadequate anyway, so 1-3 year replacement cycles is what I try to go with.
Also, largely because my RAW files are enormous, I’ll do all my culling and editing from the internal SSD in my laptop. Especially when traveling, that’s handy so it can serve as more backup still.
My systems work for me and my workflow. Maybe they wouldn’t work for yours, but the key is to actually have a system. Work it out so that everything is easy to manage. Within a few mouse clicks, I can initiate a backup. The easier that stuff is for me to do, the more likely I am to actually follow my schedule. If I have to search out things on my own, I’m much less likely to do it as often. That’s another thing I love about Backblaze; you can just leave it running constantly in the background and, once you’ve set it up and make sure it’s set to constantly run, it just handles everything for you.
Jonathan Russell I use Backblaze also. It is not cloud storage though. It is cloud BACKUP.
it's a coincident..mango street posted couple hours ago...no-one can copy and post another one at this short time period....scripting, recording, editing...it's a long process....
This video and title were created December 8, 2017 and then later uploaded Dec 17, 2017. I just had it scheduled for a while. Yes it's quite a coincidence. Thanks for watching!
Jessica Kobeissi yeah that's what I was talking about...I saw it on your insta story..
so mango street actually copied Jessica? and she isn't even accusing them of anything. Taking the high road. lol
I felt so bad for you as you were explaining it i could feel the tears wanting to come out. Glad they recovered the files. That is a good thing :)
I literally have been through that recently. Traveling in South Africa, and suddenly my hard driver stopped working. It contained all my photos and videos of 8 months of travel. I visited my brother in December and planned to back up everything there, but i didn't. Hope people listen and do not commit the same mistakes - it hurts!
You are ridiculously pretty
You just noticed that? 😀
Trixie Mattel Is The Best lol you right, been noticed. Keep those up votes coming to increase chances of her seeing 😀😁😆
Mediocre Tutorials and Reviews I mean shes meh, average at best
At least she doesn't make tutorials of how to take iPhone portraits like Jessica Whitaker does
You are so incredibly sweet! Thank you so much!
You should get a portable SSD. Probably way more durable than what you’re using.
IDK. - For odd reasons I had 3 "C:" drive SSDs bitching so far. - One of them seems close to unusable the others "better", but not convincingly reliable. - Are all your memory cards still working? - If not: Why do you believe in SSDs? One of mine died for sure.
The only use case where you NEED(!) SSDs mechanically is operating them on vibrating bumping vehicles.
My microdrive died quickly but the usual desktop / laptop HDDs seem reasonably reliable.
There is unfortunately no perfect backup medium. Better rely on mass instead of class.
Why does a travelling photographer lug an external drive around at all? Memory cards became quite affordable, modern cameras have 2 slots, the crummiest Android device seems ready to take a 128GB Micro SD to serve as another backup.
I recall a time when photographers backed up to HDDs in fear of card failures & issues. What would make SSDs more reliable than cards?
Backing up my back ups has been in the back of my mind for a long time, but I always convinced myself it was overkill. Your experience has made me think again.
Love all your videos Jessica. What happened was very unfortunate but there are always lessons to be learned in this field or other profession.
I totally got lost in your eyes and didn't hear a word you said!
What brand was it though?
If it's WD I'm done and I'm buying a different drive now. I've heard bad things
I love photographers that are humble, and can admit they are not perfect!!!! mad respect.
This is very unfortunate but an excellent story to share. And, you managed to actually recover the files. I've had instances where entire drives worth of valuable data are just gone. So a costly lesson. I think the main take away, which I got from my last critical hard drive crash experience is that these things have a life expectancy, like hands down hard drives do not live forever. And you really have to factor in the cost of redundancy in your business as a photographer to safely protect your hard work and investments. For example, since my last crash, i have never bought a single hard drive again... i've bought two each time. Setup an automatic backup protocol for when the drives are plugged in and no matter what happens to one, you always have the other. Thank you for sharing this valuable lesson.
I bought my MacBook Pro when it was a year old. Within the first six months of having it, it failed, they covered it. Probably three weeks later, it failed again. They covered it. All in all, it probably failed 5 times FOR THE SAME THING. I always back everything up since that first fail. If it fails again, knock on wood, I hope Apple just gives me a new computer. You think they would have after it failing 5 times for the same thing and for them "fixing" it, but no. Lol, I understand though. I'm just hoping it never happens again.
Just shoot film. No digital file will outlast a hard copy film negative.
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I love the way you recorded this video, the placement I guess. I really hope you understand what I’m trying to say. The lighting is on point, the contrast of your hair/shirt and the background 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
Jes, I feel your pain. That sinking horror. The realization that you've lost so much, and there's nothing you can do. I lost a brand new hard drive that I was using to make a single, unified copy of every piece of work is ever done. I took my drive to a specialist, and he told me my platters were so scratches that even the FBI wouldn't be able to get my files back. I lost a decade of work. All my music. All my movies. All my web design. All my photography. It is still, to this day, six years later, feel the horror of losing my whole digital life. I now back up to a hard drive, and anything super important goes to my server as well. I also have my devices insured. It's a scary scary thing.
Owesome makeup by the way . . . . . 😚😂😂
With Amazon Prime one has unlimited storage for photos
OLD Man Gamer I'm going to have to look in to that since I have Amazon prime.
The size limit for Amazon prime is 48.82 GB in size and they do store RAW files
I totally understand where you’re coming from same thing happened to me. And I learned the hard way, now I have a protective case and I have a back up for my back up .You live and you learn right.
Love you and your content! And by watching this video i realised how im not cautious with my drives and i already had a problem like this! Thx god it wasnt a drive from work!
Guess ill start buying cases and backup-backup drives in the morning !
Jessica why you look so good Mama? Thanks for sharing you with us. I enjoy your videos.
awwwwww you are sooo sweet! thank you thank you!
Pure rip off... 4000 dollars repair... it's not like they are stripping a jet engine..
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Sonds odd. I had a similar problem with my old PC. I paid approx. 70 EUR for having about 90% of the Data rescued - the drive they put it on included. And I bought a new notebook for 500 EUR,
Hi Dave it is a specialist service and they charge big money for it. They realize that you would not want to retrieve data from a damaged HDD if the data wasn't important. There was a case where I worked, a fellow had all his financial and presentation files on an external drive. 6 weeks of work. He accidentally knocked it on the floor from his desk. That was it...dead external drive. We tried every trick we could think off to get the data off the drive, even put it in the freezer, but nothing we tried worked. The service we used provided an estimate. I think we paid over $2000.00 and not all the data was recovered. We got a discount because we are a computer solutions company and referred our clients to the service. And yes the fellow should have known better but he didn't have a backup.
Douglas Dean even in a freezer.. 🤣🤣 I rest my case..
Octopussyist Some drives can be 90% rescued by simply using a specialty software but if the drive is completely dead and you can’t get anything out, you have to dismantle it and do some engineering magic to read the data. That’s why the cost is so high.
I feel for you! This happened to me years ago in art school with all the photography work I needed to be graded the next day. The cost was 2500 to be fixed back then and that was in NYC. Luckily my professor saw a preview of my work the week before and loved it, but since then I learned you backup a backup for sure. Thanks for sharing.
OH MY GOD! I have no idea what I would have done if this happened to me. I literally have my life in my hard drive! I don't think people would understand your frustration and helplessness unless their job was literally in a little box... I so feel for you and now I'm definitely backing all my files up. Thankyou!!! x
That's why I use Google Drive
quatie google drive has saved my life
what happened?
Don’t worry with your fine self lol. I lost my files while in Vegas and downloaded an app for Mac that allowed me to recover files that were deleted. I know that’s now the same as a mechanical issue but it still sucked! That’s an expensive issue so I hope you’re using SSD from now on! Keep up the great work.
Scott Miller what app did you purchase??? I’m dealing with the same issue and want to know if there are reliable apps out there that can help with this
I used Rescuepro but as I just looked back I realized my issue was on an SD card and not a hard drive. It might be worth a try, though. I paid like $40.
Wow Jessica! Thanks for sharing that experience with us! I know it wasn't easy for you! I, too have had my share of ups & Downs in this business; especially with some of my past cameras, and some of my gear! So I totally agree with everything you said in this clip! Keep doing these videos Jessica; cause they're very educational! God Bless you!!
Oh, no! Can't express how badly I feel for you. I've been questioning my file storage over the past couple of week. You've motivated me in a BIG way to back up to the cloud... not sure which cloud though :)
While I was in school, I carried my hard drive EVERYWHERE with me and the backup right beside it. I unfortunately got lazy and stopped backing up my main drive during my second semester and my hard drive flakes out on me just as you had said. I tried everything and nothing worked. Fortunately I had almost everything backed up but a few months after that, my BACKUP was having problems and saying it was blank and I didn’t have a new backup at that point (because broke college student) I got so lucky and my hard drive just needed a few days and it worked but I sure as hell went out and got a different brand of hard drive for my new backup and have been backing up as much as I can. It is a NIGHTMARE to lose a hard drive you have not backed up. Lots of tears were shed in those situations. I couldn’t agree more with all the tips you gave, and I’d also add, keep your daily hard drive and backup in different locations in case there was a fire or something. That way they both don’t go down and you have the other one safe in another location. Thank you for this video Jessica. It’s a harsh reality to face but it is so important to be careful, especially when such a small and delicate thing hold so much of our lives! I hope nothing like this ever happens to you again!
You are suppper photograph
thank you so much for the warning. student photographer here starting up my business. such a good tip!!
First, thanks for your video, I really like the way you make them, you're super honest and natural. I really enjoy this. Once, I had a problem with 6 drives in a RAID5 array, it did cost me 3k, diagnostic was free (OnTrack, super pro). With one drive I think it should be 1.5k. Anyway, one important thing is that hard drives are mechanically fragile, therefore you should use SSDs for travel, and *forget completely* about HDD. The backup (with another drive or/and in the cloud) is another different point, important too. I had later my 2nd backups on a HDD that was sleeping (but plugged, inside the computer) most of the time, and it died being few years old, after I started to use it every day. One week later my third backup drive (6TB seagate enteprise capacity) died ! All that happened without any shock or travel. Everything safe, protected behind an UPS (FSP). Thanks to the 1st backup, I didn't loose anything, but that was scary. Fortunately, I learned that HGST HDD are the most reliable of all, and I'll use them in the future, in RAID6 array (I can have up to 2 drives broken without data loss), and have the main storage on SSDs, which don't die. However, this does not protect from ransomwares, therefore, I'm considering another backup, offline, with tapes, in a WORM (write once, read multiple times) configuration. And you put those tapes in another place, so in case of theft, fire, water disaster, you're still OK. If the data are important, then that's the best practices ! Cheers
Is that name the same of Mango Street's video on purpose?
Nope.
Loved both, so, fine by me. Love your videos, keep them coming!
Macarena Ibsen I really don’t think it’s a scripted ad, it’s the law to state if your video is sponsored, both the videos are different and, as she wrote in the pinned comment, she made the video last month.
Interesting....Mango Street posted earlier today that they experienced an experience similar to this two years ago and they used the same title...just a little less expensive loss. BACKUP in several different places and ways. :)
I made this video back in December and posted a preview of it on my instagram early January. It was scheduled for a specific date but I decided to release it early. Thanks for watching
i just said that lol
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I just figured one of the companies mentioned was sponsoring these videos, but the Mango Street video and this one talk about using different strategies, hardware and cloud services. I’m going with coincidence, but it’s interesting to see two versions of the same topic close together AND the cross linking probably brought more views and subscribers to both!
This video was not sponsored in any way by any company. It is required by law to state if someone is sponsoring a video/product in a video and that is not the case here. Thank you
I love your channel! You are amazing photographer❤️❤️✨
It's so frustrating when something like this happens, and there is such a strong feeling of helplessness. Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts with your community. People can hear geeks say "backup, backup, backup" all the time, but the message is much stronger when it comes from a more "typical" computer user.
I understand the reaction to this is "backup a bunch", though this has to be balanced with what each of us will be able to do on a regular basis. If we choose a process which is too complex, it will likely fail. For most non-professional photographers, I think 2-3 copies is a good balance. The most important thing is to be cautious and do *something*.
I just saw the same video on Mango Street ... Weird...
Just give me a few seconds. I'm uploading a "My $2.000.000 mistake" video!
I made this video back in December and posted a preview of it on my instagram early January. It was scheduled for a while. Thank you!
But i liked mango street more.. they made it interesting and funny while giving tips, this video almost make me sad 😐 I prefer other videos by Jessica
Jazmin, Mango Street are friends of mine so if you enjoy their video that's a great thing :) I watch their videos all the time too!
that same video 1 hour before from MANGO STREET...... what new we love you and your content, so we expect new
Hi! I understand your concerns. I actually made this video (and used this exact title) back in December and posted a preview of it on my instagram Dec 9, 2017*. It was scheduled for a specific date but I decided to release it early today. Thanks for watching x
You expect her to know that a video that takes time to make, edit, and upload, is going to be on the same topic as someone else's who posted 1 hour ago? Come on. Also, not everyone follows mango street. So I can watch Jessica's video without a problem.
Obviously, you didn't watch both videos. Both super different. Smh.
am sorry if its hurt you. Really I love you and your photography. I am not with you on insta so sorry again
That's the thing, I don't have to watch both videos. I hope you support some of this youtubers personally via patreon if you are expecting them to never touch a subject someone else has already discussed.
Fist I want to say I’m sorry... I can only imagine your frustration and the feeling of loss you must have felt seeing all your hard work completely disappear right before your eyes. 😧💔 PAINFUL Last year around July or September my Android Note 4 cell phone 📱 completely died on me. It worked in the morning and by the afternoon it completely shut down, wouldn’t turn on, and it just simply died. I lost my contacts and some other info I had on the phone but thankfully I did have my pics backed up.
Thanks for sharing this important reminder to us!! I am sure you will create more amazing content in the year/s ahead that will compensate a little for your lost work. I sure it will still be painful to think about but at least you have some of your beautiful pics on Instagram 👍🏻 send you a hug and i think your work is AMAZING. You’re such an inspiration! 💛
john branch also mentioned to back up online, i felt i could do without but after seeing this it reassured to not avoid having back up. Thanks for sharing jessica
Literally the same video as mango street put out today 😂
I made this back in December and posted a preview of it early January. Thank you!
Jessica Kobeissi sorry... Just an observation... I know you couldn't have watched theirs and made a whole video the same in like 3 hours... Didn't mean to annoy you 😔
You didn't annoy me at all! I can totally understand the mixup. Just wanted to address it directly :)
Jessica Kobeissi I totally understand that and I think everyone else who didn't will when they see your instagram story bout it. Glad I didn't offend you or whatever ☺️ this has happened to me so many times also... My macbook pro seems to break every 10 minutes and I never back up...😂 bit late for New year New me I guess 😂
Tom...thing is I don’t know who mango street is and don’t care. We are Jessicas peeps here. Not like she went and created the story ..geez what an inappropriate comment. She’s too classy to tell you off.
Nice job Jessica - love your openness and your willingness to show vulnerability online - takes courage to do that. Thank you! I use an automatic backup service called "Carbonite" and it works great for me. Also, as previously mentioned in the comments the SSD harddrives have fewer moving parts and are less prone to breakage although they are more expensive. Of course not expensive compared to your $4000 mistake. Loved your video.
I lost all my photography work two years ago, I was backing up some files on the hard drive and the lights just went off in my house. When I turned on again the computer, same history as yours... my drive wasn’t appearing in my home page, I found a way to fix the drive and recover my files, but 75% of them were damaged and have a different name. I know how you felt, great video.
AHHH I feel you!!! This happened to me when I first started photography!
Jessica, you are great. I too have been through a fire and a flood. Crazy. I keep several SSD drives because they do not have moving parts, therefore; they don't break as easy. Keep doing what you are doing. Thanks.
SERIOUSLY THANK YOU FOR THIS....IVE HAD SO MANY ISSUES
Thank you for letting us know this. Bc i am currently on the market for a hard drive and i was so clueless and just found out yesterday about failing hard drives and i was skeptical but you helped me be more educated
The fact that you say that it’s Halloween every day on your channel, LOL, makes me appreciate you even more!
my fave time of the year HAHAHA :P ! thank you!!
I will definately back up my files now 😱 thanks for sharing!!
This is horrible I'm so sorry this had to happen :( I feel your pain!!
Great advice Jessica. Thanks. This is an important issue.
I am horrible at backing up my photos. Thank you for the reminder that I need to get my butt in gear and make it a priority. So sorry that happened to you. Definitely one of my worst nightmares!
The more I watch your videos the more I like you. Great personality!
P. S: It would have been good if you dropped the brand name of this hard drive not intended as a bad press for them but as an informational tip.
Holy hell !! 4K !!?? I downloaded a recovery software for $100 bucks and recovered 75 percent of all my files I must have been so so lucky.. I guess if I had the money I would have spent the money to have professionals fix it. I’m glad you got your photos back !! You have been a big inspiration to me and influence your in my photography I’ve only been shooting 1 year and I’m not any where near as good but you are the reason I’m trying to make this career for once I found my passion and the one thing I want to do for the rest of my life !
thank you for this... it's an eyeopener for sure.. sorry you went through this.
Sorry for the loss.
I learned to backup my backups when writing my dissertation... so glad it all worked out!
You got good at backing up and online storage, it's a very useful and well-thought video, Jessica. A good replacement of the external HDD is the external SSD, it's a lot faster, smaller, quieter, more stable and rugged, because it has no moving parts, but the price per GB is a lot higher and it has a limited amount of write cycles, like after a few years you need to buy another one, but the catch is that in every second you can see how much life it has left and many times it lives a lot longer than the predicted number of write circles if you get a quality one. After losing many things when Windows 7 got broken out of nowhere and nothing was possible to recover I back up anything important, Dropbox and Google Drive are the most easy to use and share files from them, but Box gives you 50GB of free online storage, but it's a little cumbersome to use. All in all, if you are going to pay for online storage ,get the one you find the easier to use. :)
Jessica, I feel for you! I had an external hard drive go bad a few years ago and the files could not be recovered. We lost about 200 hours of graphic design work! It made us sick. But... it was a great lesson. Now we back up everything to a second hard drive, as well as to a cloud service.
Thankyou for this Jessica
I lost a whole year of family photos (all my client work was backed up) when one of my hard drives failed. I still have it and want to try and recover what I can when I have the money. I’m so happy that I printed what I did so those memories aren’t completely lost.
Thank you this helps, time to get external hard drive to do this back up my backups. Sorry to hear you lost of your valuable datas
I'm definitely a data hoarder, but after hearing your experience I'm going to back up my back ups to a back up and then to a cloud... On a different note, what camera and lens did you use for this video? Your auto-focus is super fast! And tack sharp! Also nice presentation. I'm just starting my channel so I'm still deciding on what gear to buy. For now shooting off the iPhone! Lol...
Don’t beat yourself up too bad! Remember there are two types of creators in the world, those who have had a hard drive fail and those who will have had a hard drive fail. (You are definitely not alone as this kind of thing happened to me and countless others at the absolute worst times)