Are you looking for a new way to store hard drives? Think for a moment about everything you have saved on your computer’s hard drive: professional documents, personal files, entertainment, photos, and more. In moments you could lose all of those files forever. The good news is you can be proactive in protecting your irreplaceable information with an easier and …
The Always Present Risk of Data Loss: A True Story
Following is the true story that highlights the risk of data loss. In the last few decades, technology has made impressive strides. The computing power that had once required entire rooms dedicated to processors now can be done with hardware small enough to fit in your pocket. Despite those improvements, however, the risk of data loss continues to plague us. …
The Data Loss Nightmare: One Professional’s Story
Technology has made our work lives easier but has also introduced new problems, including the data loss nightmare. Professionals like you who rely on saved data – photos, documents, spreadsheets, and more – for your work can have your entire life thrown off balance simply through the loss of that data. Let me share with you one example. Because this …
How to Replace a Hard Drive – Video Tutorial
In today’s modern world there is on how to that many of never thought we would need: How to Replace a Hard Drive We usually talk about data storage and backing up your precious data on this site, but sometime you need a little more. In the above video you’ll learn the basics that you will need to know so …
Seagate Barracuda SATA Drive
The Seagate Barracuda SATA Drive (3TB) is one of our favorites to use with our archiving system. It’s fast and it’s reliable. One part of what makes our storage system seem like such common sense, is its ease of use. Part two is cost effectiveness and Part three is the speed. Ease of Use All you have to do is back …
SCSI vs. SATA vs. IDE – The Technology Evolution
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The first hard drive roared to life in 1956. Designed and built by IBM, it was as big as a refrigerator and loaded with 50 two-foot aluminum platters, each coated with an iron oxide paint that served as the magnetic storage medium. The 1200rpm drive – dubbed the 305 RAMAC – was accessed by a pneumatic read/write mechanism and provided …
Backup and Archive Continue to Converge
We’re well past the notion that backup and archive aren’t the same thing, explains columnist Jason Buffington, but they may still leverage the same technologies. We’re in what I believe is the third-wave of understanding the relationships between backups and archives. In a blog post I wrote last year, I suggested data protectionas the appropriate umbrella term because it includes backup, …