Do you think your Hard Drive is safe from Failure

It is good to note that all man made things at some point in life are bound to get spoilt. This also includes you treasured hard drive. Whether you believe me or not, one you’re your hard drive will crash. Here are other reasons why people think their hard drives will never fail:

It’s a brand new hard drive: The chances of this happening is small but how many times have you bought a new piece of equipment such as a TV, clock, DVD player or any other electronic device and it has failed to work? Do you know that hard disk drives are no exception to this? Just as in that rare occasion that a TV or a DVD player failed to work or worked for a while and stopped, a hard disk may work for a while and then fail. So don’t totally put your trust in that piece of hardware.

I backup my data and thus I am very safe from data loss: It is very good and an advisable practice to backup ones data, but the backup can also fail. What if you have a backup but it is out-dated? When was the last time the backup was tested? How often is the backup done? These are some of the questions that should be considered when one thinks that backups can be totally trusted. It is also possible for backups to be destroyed together with the originals in cases of natural disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes etc.

I restrict my surfing to trusted sites and thus, I have reduced chances of infection by viruses: Again, it is good that you do not visit the so called “questionable” sites on the internet but that is not the only way that viruses infect the computer. Viruses can be spread through the portable storage media such as DVDs, CDs and USB flash disks. Also, with the emergence of file attachments, e-mail, instant messaging and other things shared by employees and friends, the risk of accidentally infecting ones hard drive increases. Another common way of infection is if a virus is introduced to a network. It is most probable that your hard drive will be infected.

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