Preparing your company for the inevitable hard drive failure

We know that you’ve worked hard to make your business successful. You might have saved all the critical data of your business on servers within your building. Inside those servers are hard drives, which is used to store all your valuable data without which your company cannot function. So what would you do if you went into the office to access an important file and your computer wouldn’t turn on…

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Best way to get data off a failing hard drive

Hard drive is the most important part of any computer unit. It is the primary storage unit which contains a number of disks associated with it and each disk has its own memory reader. Like all the other devices, hard drive is prone to failure, damage or crash irrespective of the model and make of the hard drive. Suddenly, your hard drive may fail and you can see a blue…

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March 31st – It’s the day to talk about backup

Yes, today, March 31 is celebrated as the World backup day. Isn’t every day a backup day? Yes, it is. And where did this day come from? In the year 2011, Ismail Jadun launched ‘World Backup Day’ and ever since then it has been celebrated every year on March 31st. For many people this might be a normal Friday, the last day of March and for many parents this day…

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How well are you planned and prepared for a ransomware attack?

Organizations from many sectors have recently fallen victim to the popular cyber threat known as ransomware. As per the Malwarebytes survey in the year 2016, the UK businesses are found to be the largest number of victims being hit by the ransomware in the world. It also proved that UK businesses were also more likely to pay the ransom, which was almost 60% as compared to a survey average of…

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External HD’s/NAS Vs Cloud Backup – The best strategy for 2017

Having a backup is an important factor to recover lost data from the storage devices. There are several methods for backing up the data. Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of different types of backup services. Cloud backup You should first understand the difference between cloud storage and cloud backup in order to ensure that your data is secure. Cloud storage devices are Dropbox and Google Drive, which mainly…

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Protecting your business from ransomware and restoring data

Ransomware is a big threat to data loss. A recent survey reported that there were 3.8 million unique ransomware attacks in the year 2015 and the number increased to 638 million in the year 2016. Ransomware attacks typically initiated through the mail and it can affect businesses of any size. The idea behind ransomware is simple. Once the user clicks on a malicious mail, ransomware starts encrypting the user’s data….

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Disposing of your HDD? Never forget the risk of data recovery from damaged drives

There are a lot of discussions about securing data while in transit or at rest, but what about the data security when disposing of the system or any data storage device? One of the most important risks of selling your old system is that the new owner will be able to recover information from the hard drive. Many companies have demonstrated that used computers are often sold without the information…

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Dell Laptop Hard Drive Recovery: Recover your lost data now

Hard drives are prone to data loss after its usage for a particular period of time. Hard drive partition is a method which can be used by the users to store data in a more organized way. This method cannot be done straightforwardly, it must be carefully carried out. A single mistake of the procedure can lead to complete data loss. Reasons for data loss from Dell Laptops There are…

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Backblaze reveals the hard drive failure list of 2016

In the modern age of smartphones, tablets and laptops, hard drive failure almost seems very old. But still gamers, multimedia workers and backup storage companies rely upon the hard drive for their livelihood. Data storage, irrespective of the technology is fated to fail some day. Specially physical media like hard drives have higher chances of failure. Hard drives have only a finite life span. The hard drive takes four years…

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Is it best to have a dedicated backup system?

It is very useful to know how important it is for you to backup your files on a regular basis. If you do not choose to back up your data then you are losing all your important data. Having duplicate copies of all your data in a remote location keeps it safe whatever happens to your system. Without a proper backup, data recovery becomes difficult. There are a lot of…

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