{"id":7962,"date":"2014-08-16T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T12:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2014-08-16T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T12:50:56","slug":"should-you-leave-your-external-hard-drive-connected-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/should-you-leave-your-external-hard-drive-connected-247\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you leave your external hard drive connected 24\/7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jean wants to know if she should keep her external drive connected to her computer 24\/7<br \/>\n<\/strong>If I buy <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/genie\">Genie Timeline 2014<\/a><\/span><\/strong> and an external hard drive, do I have to keep the hard drive connected to my laptop 24\/7? Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our answer<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hi Jean. If you have automatic incremental backups setup in Genie (and you should), and you unplug your external drive, you&#8217;ll get an error message that the backup drive cannot be found because it is not there. The next time you plug it in, Genie will start backing up all the files that have changed since the last time you backed up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s something we&#8217;ve noticed &#8211; many people with desktop computers disconnect there external drives when the drive is not needed. This however is not a good practice &#8212; it shortens the life of the external drive. Constantly turning it off and on causes wear and tear and also, over time, may affect the data on the drive. It&#8217;s best to leave the hard drive plugged in and set to turn on and off with the computer (many externals will do this automatically). Since desktop computers are not very portable and you&#8217;re not going to be moving it around often, just leave it plugged in; leaving it plugged in will extend the life of your external drive and also ensure that your files and folders are being backed up incrementally with Gene Timeline Home 2014.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">If you&#8217;re using a laptop you&#8217;ll, of course, have to unplug your external whenever you move your laptop. Many people, including us, use our laptops like desktops &#8212; so we leave our external drives plugged into our laptops all the time except when we have to take our laptops with us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Hope this helps you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean wants to know if she should keep her external drive connected to her computer 24\/7 If I buy Genie Timeline 2014 and an external hard drive, do I have to keep the hard drive connected to my laptop 24\/7? Thanks in advance. Our answer Hi Jean. If you have automatic incremental backups setup in Genie (and you\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/should-you-leave-your-external-hard-drive-connected-247\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}