Crashed Hard Drives Data Recovery Big Business

Over my 20 years of computer repair, it is safe to say that I have had to replace 1 defective hard drive a week. That's 52 a year, so that's 1000 hard drives give or take. It is also safe to say that 20% of those crashed hard drives did not even phase the customer. Maybe 60% just considered it a hassle. But that leaves another 20% that were almost in tears because they filled it with family photos or work documents with out any form of data backup.

The purpose of this article is to cover a few backup options along with the cost associated with it. You will be surprised at the worst case scenario.

I'm willing to bet that every one smart enough to find this article has a CD burner on there computer. Right there you have no excuse for not backing up your files, but it is time consuming. The CDs need to organized to some extent and they are susceptible to scratches, nicks and heat. So while it is an option, it is not to practical.

Personally I pay about $9 a month for web hosting. With this I can simply set up a folder that is password protected on the server. Then every few days I connect to it and upload my whole drive by dragging and dropping. Take a FTP program of your choice and tell it to copy only the newer files and it's just that easy. What's that? $108 a year? Even then my hosting company backs up my backup while I can tend to the various blogs and sites I maintain.

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Various Backup Types For Your Laptop

Backup became a necessity nowadays, especially for laptops users. What are the various types of backup?

Here a list of various backup types :

Full backup :

A full backup contains every data on a system, that are selected to be backed up, whether that file has changed or not. Because the full backup stores all files and folders, it takes longer to accomplish and requires more storage space, but they are the most comprehensive, and also provide the quickest restore times.

Pros :

1. quickest restore times

2. most comprehensive

Cons :

1.takes longer to accomplish

2.requires more storage space

Alternatives to a full backup are differential backup, incremental backup and mirror backup:

Differential backup and incremental backup :

Incremental backup contains all files that have changed since the last full, differential or incremental backup.

Differential backup back up all the files that have changed since the last full backup, it is faster than incremental backup but quickly takes more space than it.

Incremental backup

Pros :

1.fastest backup

2.The least storage space requirements

Cons :

1.the longest time to restore

Differential backup

Pros :

1.faster than a full backup

2.Restore is faster than incremental backup

Cons :

1.Higher storage space than for incremental backup

Mirror backup

Identical to a full backup excepted that the files are not compressed, and can not be password protected.

Pros :

1.The fastest backup type

2.It makes a snapshot of selected files and folders in a destination that you can browse and access later.

Cons :

1.the most storage space consuming backup type

2.No password protection

So each solution depends on your time and your needs, but they all are easy to set up.

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Really Need Hard Drive Recovery Software

It's a great question to ask and one that has mixed reviews. Depending on who you talk to, if you don't use some sort of hard drive recovery software then you risk the chance of damaging your computer trying to go in after it yourself. Then again, others believe that there are ways for you to get the lost data back with a few simple steps. We think it depends on your experience and the amount of time you want to involve yourself with such processes.

Here are a few things to think about when deciding on whether or not hard drive recovery software is for you. First off, if your computer crashed, unless you are some kind of IT person, it's probably not wise to be diving into something you don't know much about. It's like telling a librarian to go do open heart surgery on a patient. No one would allow that, so why would you try to do it with your computer hard drive? If this is you, leave it to the professionals for your own benefit.

Another thing to think about is the time involved to personally do it. Picture this, the computer crashes, you mess around with it trying to figure out what's going on and nothing seems to be working. Once you realize how much time you are wasting getting no where, a phone call to technical support will soon follow. Again, spending time waiting and waiting until someone comes on and you explain the situation. We are talking possibly hours here, when you could have used a hard drive recovery software that takes only minutes.

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Unless You Backup Your Laptop Data

He directly contacted a data recovery company, and has to decide to make deal with the first arrival. This guy entrusted its hard disk to this company and they ensured to him that its data would be recovered, for 1500$ only...

The agreed day it comes to recover its hard disk and it is announced to him that recovery failed, it was analyzed by a specialist but for an unknown reason, that failed.

it found another specialist and this one announces to him that the analysis of its disc was not made in clean room(remember hard disks are extremely fragile and sensitive to any kind of dust, air, or environmental contamination).

Its disc was contaminated and that produced a head crash which irremediably destroyed the magnetic coating which contained the data.

Its disc was definitively lost, terrifying not? That could have arrived to you too, are you ready? Are you protected?

There are many companies that offer data recovery services, but this story shows that only the reputed companies can boast of effective data recovery.

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