If you are like me just hearing the words “data recovery” can send a chill down your spine. If the subject comes up that means data has been lost, which is never a good thing.
I can’t count the number of horror stories I have heard where someone or some company has lost precious documents; files, photos, videos, spreadsheets, proposals, or other important digital products.
Chances are you will never lose your data if you are vigilant and always do regular backups of the files on your computer. But if you DO happen to lose data, due to one of several reasons, such as: hardware failure, software error, system failure, hackers or vandalism, natural disaster, or a computer virus, don’t panic. There are methods and different kinds of data recovery software available which are capable of hard drive data recovery and laptop data recovery.
However, let me backtrack a bit. There may be those of you who are new to all of this technical jargon. So I will explain exactly what data recovery is: Your computer is made up of components that store everything that has ever been input into the computer. Kind of like the human brain this is the computer’s memory, if you will. Data loss is the computer being unable to access or retrieve information from its storage facilities.
Then there are those of you reading who are highly knowledgeable about computers. If so you are most likely aware of one optimum scheme, a raid, which highly increases your chances of not losing precious data if disaster should strike.
Raid stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and is a technology which employs the use of two or more hard disk drive at the same time on one computer. A raid not only ramps up your computers reliability against lost data, it helps the computer reach higher levels of performance.
No matter which category you find yourself in you are aware of the fact that technology is at its optimum capacity. Due to this our world runs more efficiently than ever. We have access to most anything our heart desires. All we have to do is click a mouse.
But along with this myriad number of conveniences we enjoy comes responsibility. We are totally dependent on technology in so many areas of our lives. This creates the need to be proactive. Make sure you are doing what you need to do to make the reality of data loss something you will hopefully never experience.
Even though we are the most technologically advanced society ever we would do well to keep in mind what our forefather Benjamin Franklin said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
