hey folks i'm gonna share with you guys
steps i'm taking to secure my home office computer from problems stay tuned
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welcome back to pine meadows hobby farm i'm your host jerry hansen um i'm a youtube creator
i'm here in my home office in my library we have uh the computer which i do all my
production on right here now of course the first line of defense is to get you a good
antivirus software i actually pay a subscription for a really good one
my wife and i both use it and we like it they've been very successful at blocking uh some problems
now i'm going to show you some hints and tricks that i use as a creator to secure my computer
or my to secure my files and i cannot stop all hackers from getting in the computer but i'll
share a secret with you on uh another way to help secure and preserve your computer let's go first
of all my computer is an uh an hp omen 25l it came with an a solid state 64 gigabyte hard drive
and it also has the capacity of accepting two more additional internal hard drives that are not
solid state you could do solid state but i chose i opted for uh one terabyte internal
hard drives each to fill those spaces and then i upgraded that 64 gigabyte sd uh sata drive
to a one terabyte and here's where i added a certain level of protection go online and buy one
of these little cables yes this is a cloning cable to clone your 64 sd all the information on your 64
gigabyte sd onto your one terabyte sd drive that you purchase so you can go you can go up but you
can't go down like you can't do a clone of a one terabyte to a 64 gigabyte you have to go up so
what i did before i did anything on my computer i loaded all of the data which is the windows
software everything for the computer onto the one terabyte hard drive through this cloning cable
and then once i got it on there i removed the 64 gigabyte sd card
or it's an ssd card i removed it and i plugged in the clone
now i have a one terabyte ssd but i'm keeping the 64 gigabyte uh ssd card
separate it's on the side in case i need it because this is one of the levels of protection i
made for myself for my computer is i have two hard drives now one's not connected to the computer
if by chance the one uh one terabyte uh ssd card hard drive fails or gets hacked or whatever
all i have to do is just shut the computer down remove that ssd card and plug in my other ssd card
and then reformat that card that got corrupted just format it erase all the data on it and then
reuse it reload the uh reclone it and then put it back in and we're good to go but none of my files
are on that none of my files are on that i keep my files on external hard drives yes uh i just
purchased one yesterday i ran out of storage space because i've been doing uh youtube creators um
for a long time now and i have several videos and it's taken up two of them they're 10 terabytes
each 10 terabytes each so i got 20 terabytes that are maxed out and these easy store
hard drives external hard drives are really easy and here's another level of protection i'm going
to share with you guys on how i'm protecting my files yes all my files go to these external
hard drives let me show you these have the data cable the hard drive in it and the power cord
now plugging in power on these things you want to run down i get my little power strips and
these are surge protector power strips you want to do surge protection and i get these from
goodwill you can find them so i'm going to plug this in and i'm going to bank all of my
external hard drives off of this that way all i have to do is flick this one button
and turn them all off that's all i have to do just turn them off another product you want you would
want to buy if you're hooking up multiple external hard drives because as a youtube creator you have
mega files you're going to be running out of space soon takes me about two years each to use one up
but i went down and i got one of these little usb ports you can plug this into your computer using
one usb and you can plug four up to four other usbs in here so we're going to have all three
external hard drives and i also have cloning bays i'll show you guys those uh towards the end of the
show so you unbox your unit get your power cord plug it into the back of your unit right here
get your data cord there's two different ends in it
notice the ends so this end plugs into the back of your unit right here
there you go now you're done hooking it up
let's plug it in make sure the power is off on your computer and you're completely turned off
i'm gonna place my unit down here with my other two now the other two already plugged into my
port right here
and then i plugged this into this little usb plug port right here i'm also going to
plug my card reader into this now i have all my ports are full and i'm only using one usb
port there just go ahead and tuck that down and then plug this new drive in
turn it on and we power up the computer if you're interested in where i got this and what
i paid for it this is a 14 terabyte external hard drive by western digital i purchased
it exclusively from best buy i actually went down to the store and purchased it and it cost
229.99
it was like only five bucks more than the 12 terabyte so i figured i'd go
up a step so that's good i've got it take me a couple years to fill this one up
okay let's get into the system and see if it recognizes the new um hard drive
and we go up
and it it did it's right here that it's assigned the letter d to it
so it's totally empty i've got 12.7 terabytes free space so let's go put some memory in this
i've got to take some of my files
produced videos waiting for storage and i have been waiting for storage so this is d and
let's just grab this one and throw it in d and there you go now my second line of defense is
i'm never online when those hard drives are on i'm always offline when i'm working with those
hard drives before i go online i turn the hard drives off from the power strip and as extra
measure just unplug it from that one usb port and you're completely disconnected your files are not
vulnerable and all my files go on those they don't go on anything
on the internal hard drives of the computer now i mentioned earlier in the show about uh some
docking bays like this oracle i did a review on it i'll go ahead and leave a link at the end of
the show now this oracle one you can take the uh 2.2 2.5 hard drive or 3.5 hard drive
and uh just jam them in there and you've got cloning button or you just can use this
put your sata hard drive in there yep that's all you have to do there
plug it in hook it up to your computer or you don't even need to hook it up if you're cloning
from one hard drive to another you just push the clone button back here make sure your switch
is set uh refer to the video on how to use that and you can use two different sizes i also have
this other ide sata docking this is sata only but this is ide and sata it uses both and you can do
you can salvage an old hard drive you have this an ide hard drive for the computer and these are
really inexpensive and easy to use i also like the idea of being able to continue using these
hard drives that came out of older computers and just using them for extra storage like for
pictures and document files that way they're not on the computer system well i hope i gave
you some hints and tips and tricks to secure your home office computer and keep it safe from
hacking of other problems uh say if it's just an internal failure of your hard drive of your
your computer and you have that extra safety measure you got that other one backed up that's
on the side ready to swap out that one no problem and these are the steps that i take to secure my
files don't go online with that plugged in and turned on with the external hard drives
i'm jerry hanson your host from fine meadows hobby farm we're a frugal homestead tucked up in the
cascade ranges of the pacific northwest located west southwest of crater lake national park
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