Greetings everyone! Here is the first in my series of backup solutions. As a data recovery company, dtidatarecovery.com sees a lot of hard drive failures. As I said in my post: Speed Kills with Hard Drives Its Heat, I went over how heat affects hard disk drives. This is even more apparent with external drives. […]
Hard Drives: A Destiny Of Failure!
Hard disk drives will always and ultimitely FAIL! Even with all the new technologies that arise such as perpendicular recording, the most basic element of hard drives, their ability to store data, is a lost cause. Faced with the daunting task of working on a technology destined to fail, hard drive manufacturers have to overcome […]
Speed Kills? With Hard Drives It's Heat!
A few months ago I bought an internal thermometer for my computer. I was told by Malcolm our hard drive recovery engineer that the most common reason for hard disk failure was heat. I was shocked to find the internal temperature of my machine was 120 degrees! How did it get so hot? When it […]