I have a client who has been happily using hosted exchange for several years now. I configured his assistant’s computers to access his calendar and contacts. His Blackberry is wirelessly synced using BES so any entries his assistant makes are immediately available on his device. Recently this client took a high level city position. With less than a day’s notice, we needed to find a way to get his contacts over to the city, but stripped of confidential information.
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Hard drives are the basis of your computer. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is where you store all of your data; photos, music, work documents, email, the list goes on.
Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don’t fail with time like a mechanical device such as a car. But your hard drive is one of the few mechanical devices used in modern computing, and as such, it’s destined to die eventually. A typical lifespan is 3 years on average.
It’s important to learn to recognize the warning signs of an imminent hard drive failure so you can rescue all that data before it’s lost—sometimes forever, not retrievable at any cost.
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