Two Important Features To Backup Your Data In Computer Drives

By Andreas Lee

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People use computer for their own purposes, so data lose possibility in your computer drives must be considered and also the consequences if this happen. This is the number one and very important factor which needs computer user’s attention. Whether your computer drives are used to keep your personal documents, your final exam files or your business files, your data in each of your drives are really valuable for you.

There are many ways to backup your data using computer hard drive. Along with installing additional computer drives for data storage, you can also use backup software. The second option is using external hard drive for data backup place. This kind of external computer drives can be connected through firewire, e-SATA, or USB cable.

As mentioned before that for the first option, you can combine backup software with a second computer drive. Setting them up is easier than you think. The good thing of this option is the minimum need of extra desk space and power consumption that the external drive requires. Other good thing of these computer drives are their performances which are much faster than external hard drive. Combined with backup software, you can make your backup data done easier by using automatic backup schedule and drag-drop feature.

Besides, other options are available to mirror your data in your primary computer drives. It works as additional computer drives but harder to set up. As soon as the files have been saved, it automatically duplicates the content of your computer drives to the others. Purchasing a new computer is a good choice to take this backup option advantage since a new computer has this backup feature available.

The second option which is also a best option is using external hard drive for backup storage. External hard drives are slower than computer drives because while in backup process your data has to travel through cables. But the most needed feature by using external hard drives is your data can be taken handy along with you. Some external hard drives also have data mirror feature, one of them is Western digital My Book Mirror Edition.

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Computer Hard Drive Explanation

By Andreas Lee

Computer hard drive is the lifeblood of any computer, from the tiniest laptop to the largest computer server. Without a hard drive to store data, even the most technologically advanced computer is worthless, so it is important to choose computer hard drive carefully. As you know, it is a busiest place in the computer system and has many moving parts that must operate very precisely to locate and store data efficiently. Along with its storage capacity enhancement, other aspect such as its transfer speed, interface type, and buffer cache are also increased.

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This heart of computer rapidly records data as magnetic pulses on spinning metal platters. It is made up of a number of rapidly rotating platters that have a set of read/write heads on both sides of each platter. Each platter is divided into a series of concentric rings called tracks. Each track is further divided into sections called sectors, and each sector is sub-divided into bytes.

A motor spins the platters at speeds ranging from 4500 to 10 000 rotations per minute. The faster a hard drive spins, the faster you can access and transfer data. Many computer hard drive manufacturers are now making platters out of glass and ceramic because these materials can be made thinner than aluminum platters and are better to resist the heat generated during operation of computer hard drive.

Being the most important part of a computer makes the computer hard drive the biggest suspect when the entire system performance is slowing down. The solution of such situation is to defrag computer hard drive which has been proved to be the prime cure for a laggardly computer. Even if you asked a computer expert for the solution, most of them may probably go for disk defragmentation first before taking any further diagnoses.

Always take care on your computer hard drive is the best way to prevent your valuable data loss.

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Computer Drive Defragmentation on Windows OS

By Andreas Lee

Your computer drive needs care to prevent any possibilities that may occur. You certainly do not want your hard drive crashed and data stored in your computer drive are lost, considering your data is worth even beyond the price of a hard drive itself.

If your hard drive is crashed, there is no 100% guarantee that your hard drive can be recovered and your data can be restored. Therefore from now on, give more attention to your computer hard drive. To prevent is better than to cure, isn’t it?

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One of the preventive steps you can do without software installation is through defragmentation which has been provided by Windows Operating System. You may not realize the existence of this software that has been provided by Microsoft to fill the empty gaps with data which is -in other word- compressing data to improve computer drive performance.

Before defrag your computer drive, make sure that there are at least 15% unused disk space in computer hard drive to run effectively. Steps to defrag your hard drive:

1. Enter ‘My Computer’

2. Right click on hard drive which you want to defrag

3. Select properties

4. Select ‘Tools’ tab

5. Press ‘Defragment Now’ button

6. In Disk Defragmenter windows, press ‘defragment’ button

In Disk Defragment windows, you can also choose which computer drive you want to defrag.

Defragmentation process begins with the analysis to check fragmented files, contiguous file, unmovable files, and free space, followed by defragment to compress these four types of file.

Necessary to note that during the defragmentation process takes place, don’t use any program, download, back up data, or shut down your computer. Defrag you computer drive once per month is enough, the process may take about 30 minutes. But if you did not defrag your computer drive for a long time, the consequence is the process can take a very long time, about 10 hours or maybe a day.

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