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| How can you protect your data and prevent data loss? |
Back up your data. Nothing can prevent data loss better than doing backups of all your important data. You save hours, days and weeks of works doing backups regularly.
Avoid overheating and vibration. All hard drives are going to crash sometime.
Electronic and mechanical drive components are sensitive to heat and vibration. Keep your computer in a dry, clean and dust-free environment. It is essential that the drive must be properly cooled and ventilated. Even if your system has embedded coolers and fans, additional coolers installed in a way of cooling the hard drive directly, will improve the drive's reliability. Heat and vibration are two critical causes of hard drive failure.
Avoid static damage. The big danger when working on a computer is static electricity. For the sensitive electronics on a hard drive , "static shock" or Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) can cause significant damage and in a bad scenario can be a data-killer.
ESD is enhanced when the air is dry. Central heating or air conditioning can give very dry conditions, which promote static electricity. Heating warms the air and reduces its humidity. To prevent static electricity you should control the humidity. Ideal level is between 35 and 50 percent.
If your hard drive experiences ESD and your data is lost, don't panic. Your best solution is to call data recovery experts. They have experience dealing with hard drives damaged by ESD and will apply the most advanced technology to perform data recovery.
Use SMART monitor programs to predict future hard drive failures. Most hard drives lose their performance slowly, and the disk is able to monitor and diagnose many elements' condition through SMART, providing an early warning for many types of problems. When a potential problem is detected, the drive can be repaired or replaced before any loss of data. SMART system can detect about 70% of all hard drive errors.
Scan for viruses. The threat of losing data from virus is now greater than it has ever been because of growth of the Internet. Using anti-virus software is as important as keeping backups. And the anti-virus software must be updated regularly. Take the time to scan the computer and any unknown media storage that will be used on your computer. This might come from someone who might have a whole shop full of infected computers.
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