Remember To Back Up Your Hard Disk! If Not, Make It Online Then!

I had a terrible news to break to all of you. My hard disk crashed last Friday and my information is totally wiped out! What a bad day I had after re-formatting my hard disk few weeks ago. In such a day, I start to learn something about hard disk which you guys should take note of when you are doing your own internet marketing. It is all about information here since we are all infopreneurs in one way or another. Even if our products are tangible, we are all still using information to market them.

Hard disk is the most important device of all in our computers. Our computers may not be functional as time goes by, but if we could take our hard disk out and placed it in another computer, we can still carry on with our work. And by the way, if your hard disk is spoilt and you wish to retrieve information, the pricing for repair can be as much as buying one or two new computers! So, spending $1000 to retrieve your information from the faulty hard disk is a norm… So, don’t be alarmed if your system integrator is quoting you this price.

But of course, if your hard disk is not faulty and you don’t wish to retrieve the information in it, you can still format your hard disk and start your hard disk afresh. In this case, the computer repair costing around $100 or even less, shouldn’t be a problem to the system integrator.

Buying hard disk for our computers can be an exciting process. Because we want to enjoy greater space for a longer period of time, we tend to buy bigger spaces for our hard disk. But no matter what, please always take note that your hard disk typical life span is about 3 to 5 years of reliability. After which, it is best recommended for you to buy a new hard disk to replace the old one. In my case, my hard disk is going 5 years old now… It’s no surprise that it has crashed without my knowledge. The only surprise is that I should have done some backing up.

If your hard disk is already three years old and is still running well, the best suggestion is to have a separate partition or a new hard disk to back up your important information while your old hard disk continues to run the programs and operating system (such as Windows XP). So, if one day you couldn’t access your hard disk partition, there is still a chance that you might be able to access the other one. Always keep your information in one partition, while running your applications in the main partition. This will ensure your hard disk crash in a more preventive measure.

Anyway, we can now store all our information online. With so many ways of keeping our information online, our hard disk is mainly used for running the applications that we need. For example, I am now using Gmail to access all my email needs (All thanks to Carl Ocab for giving me the tip to use just that.) We can also use Flickr to store all our photographs. We have Google Docs to save all our documents. And for those website owners, they can also store files for their visitors to download as gifts and products.

As an internet marketer, keeping your business portable is one of the criteria to allow yourself not to be location-restricted. Have fun exploring ways to use any computer to do your online business!