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Hard Drives
During the last 30 years hard drives have become smaller and smaller and can hold much more data.
Although they seem robust they should not be dropped or banged, and good advice is that if you are going to move your computer around turn it off first to avoid the hard drive being knocked accidentally.
When the hard drives stops spinning the brakes come on and lock keeping the hard drive secure.
My personal advice is that you should have a copy of your hard drive data, and since hard drives are so cheap you can simply backup your entire drive onto a similar sized drive every so many months so that if the current hard drive crashes and loses all your data, you will at least have the data backed up and ready to reinstall on a new hard drive.
It seems good advice to have your most sensitive data, data that you don’t want to
lose like business, family photos etc, on the newest hard drive that you have.
So
if your computer is like mine and has a few hard drives in it then the good stuff
goes on the newest hard drive.
Why do hard drives fail and lose all your data, well its hard to say. But I have
lost a large amounts of data when hard drives of mine have failed, so I am sure to
keep backups on DVD’s and spare hard drives, just in case.
In one case I had written
a software program and it was up to about 16,000-17,000 lines of programming code
and that hard drive died and I lost the entire program because I didn’t have a backup.
I kept some backups but for some reason not that new program I was writing.
The lesson, was, always back up your data.
If you are going to buy a hard drives get a reputable brand and not something cheap, or it may crash and you lose your data.
Installation is very easy these days, well, the hard part is the physical work.
Look for a spare place inside your computer box for a hard drive bay, and carefully slide in the hard drive and screw it in place with the correct screws.
The cables cannot be connected wrong as they are built to only fit in the right places so you should have no trouble with the data and power cables.
If you are using Windows 10:
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