Backing Up Your Data
What would happen if your computer, or more specifically your hard drive, crashed or otherwise was unavailable? What would you lose? Financial data? Digital photos? Work files? That book you're writing? All Gone!
What will you do? ... What WILL you do???
If you have valuable or precious data on your computer and it's not backed-up, then you don't know what PANIC IS until you discover it's G-O-N-E. I have watched people cry, beg, pray, and offer me thousands of dollars to restore their data! I kid you not!
The best, and only, defense is to regularly backup your data!! Yet less than 1% of computer owners perform any sort of backup! Those people are unknowingly and unwittingly asking for heartache, trauma, or worse, that's associated with unrecoverable loss of data in the event of a hard drive failure or loss!
The data on your computer is stored on a stack of rapidly spinning magnetic disks. These disks spin at speeds of up to 10,000 RPM (past the redline on your car's engine). Data is written and read by a series of heads that "fly" at microscopic altitudes over the spinning disks, as seen in this diagram:
If the heads contact the disks (a head crash) while the disks are rotating at operational speed, the result can be catastrophic loss of data.
Disks today are remarkable devices and are generally very reliable. But, it's still a moving part. Aside from the cooling fan, the disk drives are the only moving parts in your computer. And your hard disk drive is the only constantly spinning drive in your computer -- moving as long as the computer is powered on and in use.
As reliable as computers are, the hard drive remains the number one component to go out. And it's the component that holds your data!
You must protect it by performing regular backups. I simply cannot overstate the importance of regular backups!
We can install a comprehensive backup system that safeguards your data! That way, if your computer dies, we can recover your otherwise irreplaceable data! Or maybe something a bit more mundane happens. You accidentally delete the wrong file. By having a backup, you can easily recover! There are many backup systems on the market, but not all are equally effective, easy to use, or quiety automated. Let us help you choose what works for you!
Backup solutions may include external hard drives or using an outside service (such as that offered by Columbia Computer Consulting) to store your data. We will interview you by asking a series of questions which will guide us to recommending the backup solutions that will best serve you.
The time to install a comprehensive and effective backup system is NOW, before something goes wrong!
I would MUCH rather service your backup needs today, than try to resurrect your dead hard drive tomorrow (which is a black art anyway).
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