Backup

Often enough we have customers come into the store that have a failing hard drive. Loosing your data can be very detrimental for a business and very heartbreaking for someone at home.

Most recently we had a customer bring in a hard drive that was failing. The hard drive contained all their family photos and all the baby photos of their children. Since the drive was internally damaged, we had to ship the drive to a facility that could disassemble the drive and pull the data off. This process cost our client $2500. A price that they were more than willing to pay to retrieve their priceless photos.

An easy way to protect your photos is to burn a CD every time you come back from a vacation or an activity. A CD should hold anywhere from 250 to 500 pictures. Label the CD with the name of the vacation and put it in a fire proof safe. Another upside is that some DVD players will play your new picture CD. I would still recommend keeping them on your PC for easy access, but now you have a backup of your pictures and blank CDs are relatively inexpensive.

Feel free to contact us for more great and simple backup ideas.