Back up your hard drives!
Hard drives eh? The biggest threat to them is the people they have to deal with. It’s no wonder that hard drive recovery is such big business.
But why do they have to be so complicated? Hard drives and the recovery of them aren’t things instantly or even easily fathomable to the average human, and they should be. As our lives slowly slide from the realms of reality on to and in to computers, will we all gradually accumulate the knowledge as to how to properly deal with and fix these machines?
Will something like hard drive recovery eventually become innate; second nature? Probably not. If we all had the potential to become doctors of computers, we’d surely have been born with the ability to be doctors for our own bodies.
What’s weird is that backing up your own data, and thus avoiding having to seek hard drive recovery, is relatively easy. You don’t need to do much to make copies of stuff. What’s weirder is when people have stuff on their computer, personal stuff, and they REALLY wouldn’t want anyone else to see it, but then they don’t bother to back that up either.
This happened to a friend a while ago and it still annoys him when I joke that the people at the hard drive recovery place all get to have a good look at everything that’s recovered whether it’s labeled as confidential or not.
