Bigwoofs Technology » backups http://technology.bigwoofs.com Technology support for the Kenai Peninsula Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:34:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Hard drive failures http://technology.bigwoofs.com/2009/08/05/hard-drive-failures/ http://technology.bigwoofs.com/2009/08/05/hard-drive-failures/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:47:36 +0000 Ryan http://technology.bigwoofs.com/?p=183 I’ve seen an uptick in hard drive failures recently. It’s important to remember that the weakest link in a computer is often the hard drive. It’s the only constantly moving part (unless you have a solid state drive), and the most fragile.

Please do yourself a favor: spend some money on an external drive, and do regular backups, at least once a week. If you have a Mac running OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or later, it’s as simple as plugging in the drive and letting Time Machine do the backup automatically. The money and effort involved are a far better value than the alternatives should your drive or computer fail!

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