50 Ways to lose your data / How data gets lost
If you’re short of things to worry about, Robin Harris over @ ZDNet has 2 great posts about things that can go wrong in the realm of data storage…
50 ways to lose your data by Robin Harris — Apologies to Paul Simon… Disk drives are marvelous devices. Especially when they go “clunk” and stop working. I’m not kidding: at least you know your data is hosed. I prefer that to the silent data corruption you don’t find out about until you can’t access a file or your OS starts freezing. Or a RAID rebuild […]
How data gets lost by Robin Harris — Our perception of risk and the reality of risk are often two different things. For example, are computer viruses or system glitches more likely to hose your data? While viruses get bad press for poor system performance, they aren’t very likely to damage your data. Your system, on the other hand . . . . This […]
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