{"id":27382,"date":"2016-09-22T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=27382"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:41:04","slug":"1tb-ultra-portable-external-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/1tb-ultra-portable-external-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"1TB Ultra Portable External Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using these Western Digital 1TB drives for years. They connect to a computer through a single USB cable, which handles power and data. They weigh about five-and-a-half ounces, which is less than my iPhone 6 Plus. They are small enough (4.3 x 3.2 x 0.6 inches) to carry in a travel bag without even knowing they are there. <\/p>\n<p>I use a Mac utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/SuperDuper\/SuperDuperDescription.html\">SuperDuper<\/a> to make a bootable clone of my desktop hard drive, and sometimes take it with me when I travel (not often, because it would be bad to lose it and expose all my information to whoever found it). I have three other My Passport 1TB drives. One of them is called &#8220;media&#8221; and it stores my photos, videos, and music. I keep it on my desktop. The other is called &#8220;backup media,&#8221; and it&#8217;s connected in another part of my house through the USB port on a Wi-Fi range extender. It gets backed up every night via SuperDuper. And then I have a drive called &#8220;Time Machine&#8221; which is an Apple Time Machine backup of the files on my desktop computer&#8217;s hard drive. (I also have a personal cloud storage device and offsite backup &#8211; call me paranoid, but I like knowing my files won&#8217;t go into a black hole.)<\/p>\n<p>When I upgrade to a new computer, it&#8217;s easy to plug in the backup drive, boot from it, then use SuperDuper to clone the internal drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable backup drive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27390,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions\/27390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}