Storage/Hard Drives

This week I learned about storage and hard drives. I also found out that backing up files are extremely important. There are different websites and companies that can back up your files. Your files are the most important thing, without them, you basically lose your whole business and I definitely don't want that to happen to my business especially when my idea can help out the world in a positive manner. There is always a chance that you can lose all your information such as when the hard drive burns out which does happen or whatever else that can destroy all your files. You can have it all one minute and it's all gone in the next. Anyways, the point here is that you should back up your files from like every 2 weeks to a month or so and it could save your life! It's not even a lot of money, backing up your files in fairly inexpensive. You can either buy a external hard dive in the range of 50-200$ from fair to a good amount of storage capacity or you can decide to use cloud storage. The term cloud is pretty strait foward, like when something is out there and around, but no one can really see it but you. Basically cloud storage are online storage companies who backup your files for a very expensive amount every month (not all though). Some cloud storage services charge an additional fee per gigabyte for data transferred to and from the cloud storage service. However, some people may not trust cloud storage services with their personal/business information so their only other choice is external. The bad thing about external is same as a hard drive, it can be damaged, broken or have some issues. Therefore, cloud storage is usually a better and easier choice. A few cloud storage services include ibackup, carbonite, mozy, jungledisk (powered by Amazon S3). I would choose jungledisk - Amazon S3 to back up my files because my professor uses it and since he is a very wealthy and successful man, I trust him! I also learned about solid state storage devices (USB, flash drive, SD cards). There are no moving parts in these devices, therefore, it's a lot more convenient and not as fragile as storage devices that do have moving parts. Just one thing I wanted to share is fragmented files are bad and defragmenting your computer can make it run faster and move around to free up space. Overall, all these information can help me with my project in successfully backing up my important business/personal information as well as maintaining a fast and reliable computer to work with.