Hard Drive CRASH! Data lost
Hard drive crash! Data gone. Has this ever happened to you? You turn on your PC and all you get is a little flashing cursor in the left hand corner of the screen or can’t find drive O error on the screen. You reboot your system and you get the same thing. You meant to back up your data, you really did. All those spreadsheets, word documents or even worse the family photos and MP3 files, all gone.
With most USB Hard drives you’re able to connect them to your computer at your home or office network and set it up to automatically backup your data. Most USB hard drives come with software to manage the drive and how it performs with your PC. You can select what data you want backed up with the ability to schedule when and how often it needs to be backed up.
Another alternative is to use it as an extra drive on your PC. Being portable, the data can be physically moved from one pc to another by just plugging into an available USB port. USB Hard Drives just like many other USB devices are very flexible in their use and portability.
For the critical system backups you can image your entire system. With additional software a full recoverable image can be created and stored on the USB Hard Drive. This will allow full system recovery including applications doing a restore from the last image file created.