Your computer’s hard drive stores all of your programs and all of the files, documents and pictures you’ve saved to it. It’s not a matter of ‘if’ your hard drive will fail, but ‘when’ will it fail? A hard drive is similar to a car engine in that it starts and stops, heats and cools, and spins at thousands of revolutions-per-minute for years on end. Eventually it will fail.<\/p>\n
If you remember and have the time you can burn a CD\/DVD of your data periodically, or you can use new online storage which makes backup easy, automatic, secure and fire-proof.<\/p>\n
I use and recommend a service from Mozy.com that automatically backs up my data every day. My data is encrypted, sent over the internet, and stored on redundant hard drives in a fire-safe, earthquake proof data center located in Utah. They offer 2GB Totally Free Online Backup! Compliments of Mozy<\/a> – or you can get unlimited storage for only $4.95\/month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your computer’s hard drive stores all of your programs and all of the files, documents and pictures you’ve saved to it. It’s not a matter of ‘if’ your hard drive will fail, but ‘when’ will it fail? A hard drive is similar to a car engine in that it starts and stops, heats and cools, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}