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How To Limit Hard
Drive Data Recovery Costs
By James Allen
With the value on
information rising day by day, one of the greatest threats to businesses
of any size is data loss. If the data centers in your business have ever
experienced a hard drive disaster, you quicky realized just how valuable
the information lost is.
And then, the situation
becomes even worse, when you realize how much it is going to cost for
a disaster recovery specialist to try and retrieve or restore your data
for you.
Here are some basic
tips for avoiding such a situation.
1. If you company
is using older computers, be sure your tech support is regulary checking
for any problems on your hard drives. By discovering problems before they
have a chance to wreak havock on your data, they will have an opportuntiy
to back the data up before it is no longer retrievable.
2. Make sure your
techies are giving you the old hard disks when they do hard drive upgrades
on your systems. Even when the information has been copied onto new disks,
the old drives still contain all your valuable data. You don't want this
getting into the wrong hands. Plus, it is always good to have a backup
while the new hardware is settling in.
3. Especially in a
fast paced office environment, the thousands of computer files can become
disorganized over time. Make sure your computer support is running defragmentation
programs on a regular basis.
4. Keep the operating
systems the same across all machines in your office. This will help prevent
hard drive corruption from various users incorrectly installing programs
on a system they are not familiar with. Better yet, leave program installation,
removal and system partitioning to your tech support.
5. Make sure employess
report any problems that crop up on their machines. If even one computer
starts acting strangely, running slower, or giving error messages, have
support run a scan disk or CHKDSK immediately. Remember, it will be much
cheaper to repair one computer's hard drive than to pick up the tab after
a total system disaster!
Keeping the following
tips in mind when creating your data loss disaster prevention plan will
help limit not only headaches, but losses to your bottom line.
James B. Allen blogs
regularly about disaster recovery planning. To learn more about data recovery and other aspects
of disaster recovery, visit James at: DisasterRecoveryData.com.
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