Businesses and organisations now appear to be naïve about the true cost of data storage infrastructure. Data storage is a necessity for efficient operations of a business but in the context of the present global economic crisis, there need to be a practical and cost-effective data storage strategy.
The following are the costs entailed with increased data storage:
We’ve seen many a data disasters here at Kingdom Data Recovery throughout of time so we thought we would share some of the more unusual ones with you. Please note that no names have been used purely to protect the innocent. Read more and discover a few of our favourites from the past couple of years.
Electrostatic discharge or ESD in the context of electronics refers to the momentary unwanted current which may cause damage to electronic equipment. ESD is a grave risk especially in solid state electronics such as integrated circuits which are made up of voltage-sensitive semiconductor and insulating materials. Even a low voltage can cause irreversible damage to these materials.
Static electricity is one of the causes of ESD. Static electricity occurs commonly as even a simple rub with your fingertips on the PC keyboard can cause it. Much of static electricity occurs via a process called triboelectrification, when exchange of electrons occurs as two materials rub and then move apart.
A survey conducted in UK in October 2010 revealed that of all the possessions people worry most about losing, it is photos. People are more afraid of losing pictures than even their purses or handbags.
Pictures are irreplaceable. They represent who we were and where we’ve been. We can replace lost keys and phones but nothing can take the place of lost photos. Once they’re lost, they’re lost forever—except in our imaginations which, unfortunately, we can never share with anybody.
Pictures of you when you got married, that picture of your wife as she was delivering your baby, those first shots of your newborn child, birthday party pictures or graduation pictures—these are visual records of our emotional moments and significant milestones. We would give anything just to keep them.
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Having already sent his faulty laptop hard drive to another Data Recovery company James called Kingdom Data Recovery as he felt the price he had been quote was excessive and as a result had lost faith in the chosen company. To further add to delays this was during the bad weather period the country had been experiencing and a week before Christmas to make things even worse.
Businesses handle such a volume of data that storage of it incurs considerable expense and labour. Yet backing up data is a necessity for businesses. Just consider the medical records of hospitals, account histories of financial institutions and sales transactions or customer support for business enterprises and you will realize the need for efficient and secure data storage.
There are two major kinds of data storage available. The traditional way of data storage is on-site tape backup. The newer way is by remote storage.
Remote storage is usually done online and off-site and is thus also called online backup service, managed backup service or remote data storage. Online backup systems are third-party backup service providers which collect, compress, encrypt and transfer their client’s data to a remote service or off-site hardware.
As a student, your course work is an investment for life. That coursework is the basis for grades, which are the bases for one’s lifetime career. It represents countless hours of research and mental labour. Losing all that course work is the worst nightmare any student can experience.
Of course there are professional data recovery companies to resort to in the event of data loss, but the expense incurred with availing this service may be unaffordable to students plus there may not be enough time before that deadline for submission or grading.
Prevention is a world better than a cure. The following are hints and tips to help students protect against losing all that coursework.
Data recovery is the only option with loss of valuable data. Data can be recovered either by availing of the sometimes expensive but professional services of a data recovery company or by the much cheaper but riskier DIY option.
Which is better? More people would probably go the cheaper route and choose to recover data by themselves.
The following are do’s and don’ts in DIY data recovery.
Solid-State Drives or SSD are the thing to watch out for in hard drive technology. Solid-State Drives are data storage media which use solid state memory, and are called solid states as they are built entirely from solid materials with the electrons and other charge carriers contained within one material.
Solid-State Drives are fast displacing mechanically rotating hard disk drives. This is because as data storage media, Solid-State Drives are sturdier, faster and generally more reliable than magnetic hard disk drives. The only drawback is the high cost. But, as history in technology has consistently shown, prices would drop considerably through the years.
Seagate is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard drives and storage solutions with a history marked with many breakthroughs. The first product they produced was the ST-506, the first hard disk to fit the 5.25-inch form factor of the then famous “mini-floppy drive.” Needless to say, the hard disk was a hit, and was shortly after upgraded from the 5-megabyte to the 10-megabyte version, the ST-412.
It is the ST-412 hard disk which fueled Seagate’s early growth as it was the hard disk used by the first personal computer to contain a hard disk, the IBM XT. Back then, IBM was the largest supplier of personal computers and purchased a volume of hard disks from Seagate that was large enough to propel Seagate to financial viability.
