Back Up Hard Drive

Research data on backup hard drive or external drive is often cited by general-interest publications as well as more sophisticated research firms. You can backup software and files and access them from another system. Using a backup external drive is great for people who have too much data to store on disks, but there are definite risks involved in using this method.

Files and Data

Files can become corrupt, which can be due to the way it is configured. Initially setting it to do a full back-up, a user can set it to do a weekly scan for "new and updated files and add them to [my] backup". When looking into the newest set of backup files a user can see copies of files I know I haven't accessed let alone changed, in months based on the settings. It's also great because you can schedule a back up of data the same time, everyday. It also supports playing many formats of video and audio files off of normal USB flash drives and data CDs or DVDs.

Even with such a configuration, it should be loaded because the files can be seen. There are cases where it seems for some reason that the backup program has decided to randomly add files to my backup for no reason.

One time, even though a user has been religiously backing up my hard drive onto external backup drive, after the hard drive crashed I found out that most of my hard drive data never actually got backed up to any of the drive. As any seasoned computer jockey will tell you, data loss is not a question of if but when.

Keep in mind, however, that a backup hard drive is just as susceptible to mechanical failure (and, for that matter, virus and spy ware infections) as your primary drive--all the more reason to adopt more than one backup solution. Also keep in mind that it usually is more expensive use a backup hard drive, which is less savory.

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Hard Drive Capacities

Hard drive capacities has been increasing year after year and we are now reaching unprecedented capacities. The question I pose to you is how much space do we really need? My first computer I owned was in 1994. I had a 100mhz computer with 500 MB of disk space with a cost of nearly $3,000. Could you imagine having a hard drive today with 500mb? It did its job back then with only 500MB, but there's no way you could even install an operating system on it today.

6 years later (in 2000) I decided to upgrade my computer storage space. It was a 60GB hard drive that I paid well over 500 dollars for. Yes I know that sounds a bit crazy, but at the time the average disk space was about 10-20 gb, and mine was 3-5 times their capacity. Fast forward to today (another 10 years), you are now able to buy a 1 TB for well under $100. For those that are not tech savvy, 1 terabyte = 1,000 gb.

Do we really need all of this space on our computers? The average computer user will only need a fraction of that capacity and will never even get close to maxing it out. The reason why hard drive space has continually increased is because of the demand for fast broadband speeds. It is now easier to transmit data on the web fast and easy.

Back in 1996, I used AOL for my internet service. One day, I decided to download a file that was roughly 1gb to my hard drive. It was eventually completed but took 24 hours a day for nearly 30 days to finish the download. Compare that to the broadband speeds of today. I am now able to download 1gb file today in less than 1 hour. In additional, watching music videos back then took about 45 minutes to buffer before you could even watch the video. Today, you could just go on YouTube and watch the video as it is streaming in real time. With speeds getting progressively faster and technology increasing rapidly, it was evident that hard drive space needed to be increased.

Music, photos, documents, and especially movies take up a lot of space. Unless new technology surfaces that requires more disk space, I just do not see the need for much further increase in storage capacities. Having huge capacities only creates big headaches. Imagine sorting through 500 TB (500,000 GB) to find one specific picture. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack. No, thank you.

Will Formatting Permanently Erase My Hard Drive?

Selling, recycling, or giving away your old computer? Wondering if simply formatting data will permanently erase your hard drive? Simply formatting data on a hard drive and erasing it is not enough internet security. You need to use disk deleting software to permanently erase data and files on your hard drive.

You can spend countless hours going through your hard drive and deleting all the files and y documents you want. Using your "delete" key on your keyboard in Windows unfortunately basically only removes the shortcuts to the files making them invisible to users. Deleted files still reside in your hard drive. They can easily be recovered using data recovery software, readily available for download on the Internet.

While formatting a hard drive is a little more secure than simply erasing the files, it does not permanently erase the actual data on the disk. Formatting a hard drive only erases the address tables. This makes it much more difficult to recover the files. However, a computer specialist would be able to recover most or all of the data that was on the disk before reformat, using data recovery software. This is wonderful if you have accidentally reformatted a hard drive. On the other hand though, it is not good if you're selling, recycling, or giving away your computer. With your computer in th wrong hands, crooks could steal your identity. This could lead you to becoming the next victim of identity theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in Canada and the USA.

Here's a bit of "food for thought". In 2003, two MIT students purchased 138 used disk drives from various locations. They found more than 5,000 credit card numbers, medical reports, deleted personal and corporate financial information. On top of this the two students found several gigabytes of personal email and pornography on those disks.

To securely erase data and files from your hard drive you need to use a process called disk wiping. This is a secure method of ensuring that data on your computer and other storage devices is permanently deleted. To permanently and securely erase data on your hard drive you need to use disk deleting software, also known as file wipers, shredders, and wipe programs. It is good to know that there is free disk deleting software for download on the Internet.

Disk deleting software overwrites your hard drive with 0's or random patterns. This makes it virtually impossible to recover data and files on your computer using data recovery software.

Apparently, according to an article I read in PC World, some hardware can recover data that has been written over once or twice. That is where secure delete standards, such as the Department of Defense 5220.22-M, comes into play. This specification states that overwriting the drive sector three times with specific, different characters constitutes one pass. Seven such passes are recommended by many Internet security experts to make the data completely unrecoverable.

It is reassuring that to read data overwritten by even the simplest disk deleting software requires expensive hardware to recover, so only the most determined professional sleuth would be able to recover your data.