Please take a moment look at whether you have a backup of your computer data, and if so, ask yourself how solid this backup is. If your computer died today, what would you lose? Chances are you have important documents, your family pictures, your writings, your correspondence and many other valuable things on your computer.
I have seen a lot of hard drives die lately. I suspect that this is because they are getting to be larger and larger capacity and tend to have more moving parts that can go bad. Hard drives as we know them are not a stable technology and soon will be replaced with solid state drives, which are much more reliable because they don't have moving parts. All hard drives fail, it's just a matter of when.
Please take a moment to see what your situation is with your backup. Ideally you should have two backups. There should be a drive attached to your computer, or on your network where you backup your data. This should backup as much as possible and should continue to backup on a daily or weekly basis.
Then there should be some kind of off-site backup. This can either be another external hard drive that you backup data on and then take to a relative's house or it can be one of the many online backup systems. This is in case you (God forbid) have a fire, flood, earthquake or theft that leaves you without your computer and your backup hard drive, or if your main hard drive fails and your onsite backup fails too.
Supportus Maximus can design a solid backup system for you and implement it. If you need us to check to see if yours is up to snuff, we would love to do so. It's much more pleasant than trying to recover data once it's lost.
Best,
Joel Marshall
Supportus Maximus, Inc.
www.supportusmaximus.com
323-634-9098
