i wish someone would tell MAXTOR that the floppy disk is dead. twice now i've been forced to buy new floppy disk drives that have only been used to run their diagnostics on their "quality" drives before i could RMA them.
if you are majoring in any respectably difficult topic in college, you are not going to have time to worry about your stuff being stolen.
with that said, get the insurance.
also, get a shitbox computer, set it up at home on mom and dad's dsl/cable line with a no-ip.com dynamic dns address, setup rsync on the home computer and your laptop, and be done with it.
if it's stolen, it's stolen, but your data will not be gone if you rsync daily with a scheduled task or cronjob, and insurance will pick up the bill for the new equipment.
and as others are saying here, if you go minimalist, you'll find you dont NEED half (or more) of the stuff you own.
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i wish someone would tell MAXTOR that the floppy disk is dead. twice now i've been forced to buy new floppy disk drives that have only been used to run their diagnostics on their "quality" drives before i could RMA them.
if you are majoring in any respectably difficult topic in college, you are not going to have time to worry about your stuff being stolen. with that said, get the insurance. also, get a shitbox computer, set it up at home on mom and dad's dsl/cable line with a no-ip.com dynamic dns address, setup rsync on the home computer and your laptop, and be done with it. if it's stolen, it's stolen, but your data will not be gone if you rsync daily with a scheduled task or cronjob, and insurance will pick up the bill for the new equipment. and as others are saying here, if you go minimalist, you'll find you dont NEED half (or more) of the stuff you own.
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