Saturday, 1 June 2013

Data Recovery Is A Big Issue Today

By Rena Hudson


In the past when you wanted to backup all of your files you would have two choices. You would either install a second hard drive to your computer, or you could copy everything to discs. This made data recovery very difficult as you would have to insert disc after disc copying the files every time. The amount of files copied over from disc to PC back then was slow meaning the process would take nearly forever.

Even with a second hard drive it was no picnic. If the hard drive was installed internally it was better as you would have decent speeds. If it was an external model your speed depended on the bandwidth of the cable connecting the two and back then it was not too fast. This could take a very long time and because of that many people simply would avoid doing any of it.

There is big business in this as people will do almost anything to protect what is theirs. Today there are hard drives available that in the past only the most high tech and most expensive computers would have. But now any 15 year old kid can have a 5 TB drive that is external and the size of a deck of playing cards.

We have come a long way in our technology but even so, the technology is not the sole reason that backups are easier today. Sure it makes for faster cables and faster copying, bigger hard drives and easier installs. But for the most part it is new ideas and some applied common sense that has helped this field the most.

A few of them have even hired professional security experts to make sure that their servers are error free, backdoor free, and exploit free. The spend a lot of time and money making sure that this is the case and that your information and applications remain free. In large part they have succeeded as many of the bigger cloud services have not had a breach.

People are using the cloud services to hold large files while they go from one place to another. Then once their they can recover what they need by using any computer. They do not even need to use the original computer they used to upload the file with. This has been great for people trying to transfer files to other people as well.

These various solutions have made things a bit easier for everyone because there is less to have to save. One of the biggest things that people worry about are their digital pictures. Today because they are so popular and almost everybody has a digital camera plus their phones are capable of taking such great pictures too, people have gigs of digital pictures on their PC's.

Saving all of this is not a problem and people all do it. But it is the data recovery that can be an issue. It all depends on where it is backed up in the first place. If on discs it can be hard to recover but if on a hard drive it is much easier. People should consider where they will have to recover things prior to saving them there.




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