Preventing Data Loss / Hard Drive Failure

Although, naturally we want your data recovery business, we would like to also help you prevent hard drive failure and data loss. The number one cause of hard drive failures and data loss is excessive heat. When building a system it is important to take simple measures such as installing a secondary case fan which can help extend hard drive life helping to prevent data loss and the need for data recovery. Hard Drive cooling can be kept optimal by keeping Computer Systems clean and free of dust. Canned compressed air can be "carefully" used to clean dust buildup in Computers to keep air flowing through fans and vents, which will help maintain proper system cooling helping to prevent hard drive failure and data loss. When choosing an External Hard Drive Enclosure, try to buy one well vented, preferably with a built in Fan. Excessive heat can cause hard drive electronics to burn out or even worse the drive's media (Platters) to slightly expand enough, past their tolerances and make contact with the heads in some cases causing a Major Head Crash physically grinding the Heads into the Platters. To help prevent Hard Drive Failure and Data Loss in Laptops / Notebooks, if spending a lot of time at idle you can set your hard drive to spin down after 5 minutes. These hard disk drives are designed to come back online quickly after system input such as Trackpad movement. With External Hard Drives, especially with "vertically mounted" or "upright" hard drives, it is important to place them in an area or secure them where they cannot be toppled or knocked over. We are noticing an epidemic of "vertically mounted / upright" external hard drives knocked or toppled over while running causing spindle motors to completely seize or lock, which is a serious failure. Additionally stick to the lowest hard drive capacity possible, even though higher capacity drives will "seem" like the better buy, where unfortunately they aren't, as they tend to be less reliable, more sensitive and less serviceable. Say you have only 50GB or 100GB worth of Data and need an external drive, then it would be wise to avoid a 500GB or 1TB drive where instead a 250GB or 320GB Hard Drive would actually be the "smarter" buy. Then of course, there's also that saying everybody hears "back up your data" (External Hard Drive, CD's, DVD etc.)

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