A note to small businesses about backup
Good day. Businesses like yours are more reliant on data stored on computers. Whether customer and patient records, accounting information or policy manuals; this information is one of the most important things in your business. However many business’s do not take steps to protect that data. Hard drives have an 18% failure rate in the first year alone. Most of us in the technology business knows when it comes to hard drives, it's not if…
Drive Prices Should Not Dictate Backups
Have you looked at hard drive prices lately? If you have not been in the market for a few months, you will get a nasty surprise when going to purchase one. In many cases drive prices have doubled from six months ago. The main reason for this is that the worst flooding in decades hit Thailand where most of the worlds drive manufacturers have their factories. Western Digital announced that 75% of production was affected. …
3TB drives, not as simple as you think.
3TB drives are now starting to appear at attractive price points for consumers and small ; However there are some issues that may be faced when putting these drives into older systems. The issue is that some older PC BIOS's and some operating systems (most notably Windows) may not be able to address the entire 3TB of space in the ; Without going into a lesson in memory address issues, (I see your eyes glazing…