You’re backing up all your data…right?<\/p>\n
If you’re not<\/strong>, you should<\/strong> be.\u00a0 These days, your critical documents, family photos and entertainment collection all live on your computer’s hard drive — a hard-working and reliable little device that nevertheless has (according to a 2007 study by Google<\/a>) a 3% annual failure rate when it’s brand-new<\/em> — that’s right, every year, on average, 3 out of every 100 new<\/em> hard drives fails…and it only gets worse as drives age.\u00a0 With professional data recovery costing up to $1,000 (or more), it’s just not an option to take any chances!<\/p>\n No need to panic — the good news is that backup software, once costly and complicated, is now very cost-effective and easy to use, while external hard drives are now available in sizes of up to 3 terabytes<\/em> (that’s about 3,000 gigabytes<\/strong>) for less than $300<\/strong>.\u00a0 There’s really no reason why you shouldn’t<\/strong> have a backup solution in place…these days, the challenge lies in picking the backup solution that’s right for you<\/em>.<\/p>\n An important consideration is the ease of restoring your data from a backup — the more critical the data is to you, the easier and faster you’ll want to be able to retrieve it (and it should be easy for you to find the right<\/em> version of a file among your archives). Also, in the event of a total drive failure, you’ll want to be able to restore your entire system<\/em> to a new drive.<\/p>\n Let’s take a look at a couple of software solutions that do a good job of meeting these basic backup needs, one for Mac, the other for Windows (we’ll talk hard drives in just a bit):<\/p>\n Okay, onto hardware!\u00a0 As we mentioned above, hard drives prices are lower now than they\u2019ve ever<\/em> been.\u00a0 But don’t just go for the cheapest option you see — it’s important to pick an external drive with the right capacity<\/strong>, rotation speed<\/strong>, interface<\/strong> and redundancy<\/strong> options:<\/p>\n Here at Island, we have a few “go-to” backup drive solutions that we rely upon on a daily basis, and which we recommend to our customers (all of the below solutions feature 7,200 RPM hard drives):<\/p>\n Regardless of which<\/em> hardware and software solutions you choose to back up your digital assets, the bottom line is that, if you’re not already backing up your computers, you need to make the jump now, before it’s too late.<\/p>\n As always, Island Technologies is here to help, with technical support services and competitive pricing on hardware and software.\u00a0 Get on track and you won’t have to worry about getting your data back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’re backing up all your data…right? If you’re not, you should be.\u00a0 These days, your critical documents, family photos and entertainment collection all live on your computer’s hard drive — a hard-working and reliable little device that nevertheless has (according to a 2007 study by Google) a 3% annual failure rate when it’s brand-new — … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-solutions","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.islandtechnologies.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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