On April 23, 1970, a Motorola employee named Alvin B. Phillips founded Western Digital Corporation, now the world’s second largest hard disk drive manufacturing company, second only to Seagate. It was originally named General Digital which had a brief stint at manufacturing metal oxide semiconductor or MOS used in amplifying electronic signals.
Vaulting, or off-site data protection, is a strategy of sending critical data away from the main site (or off-site) in anticipation of disasters such as fire, floods or typhoons which might destroy these data. Financial institutions such as banks and lending firms, corporations and industries, by the very sensitive nature of the data they handle daily, must have some form of remote backup system as part of a long-term disaster recovery plan.
Data can be transported physically in the form of magnetic tapes or as optical storage media such as discs and flash drives. Data can also be sent electronically through a remote backup server, a process known as electronic vaulting or e-vaulting. These storage media are then kept securely in storage vaults.
Commercial off-site data vaults fall into 3 categories: underground vaults, free-standing vaults and insulated chambers.
In 1996, a major bank in Paris, the Credit Lyonnais, was struck by a fire. System administrators risked being roasted alive as they raced into the burning building to rescue backup tapes because they do not have off-site copies. Numerous sensitive computer archives and data were lost.
As if any reminder were needed, there is always a vital need for business and individuals to carry out a regular backup of their data. Here is a look at some of the many data backup practices trusted by many worldwide. A data backup plan should consider accessibility, security and cost. Here is a review of the different backup storage media.
The hard disk drives of today are compact enough to be handy, sturdy enough for any environment (be it home, office or mobile) and of a capacity to store data which is just short of unbelievable. In contrast, the earlier hard disk drives were gigantic in size, too sensitive to be used anywhere other than an especially protected data center and, by modern standards, generally had tiny memory capacity.
The first hard disk drives were the size of washing machines and had large motors which necessitated the use of high current or a three-phase power supply. Nowadays hard disk drives of desktops, now have 500 to 1,000 gigabytes of loading capacity, with some well into the terabytes.
Few products in the history of human invention have shown such amazing reductions in cost and size accompanied by an increase in sophistication and performance as hard disk drives.
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