Recently I was working with a potential client that was having problems with his hard drive. Turns out the drive was suffering from a mechanical problem known as the "click of death". This means there is no way of recovering the data with typical recovery software you would use if you formatted your drive or deleted files. The drive has to be sent off to a company that specializes in these types of recovery situations. The issue with this is that depending on the company, the size of of the hard drive, and the data you want recovered it can cost up to $3000.00 for just one hard drive.
I cannot stress to users enough how important it is to backup your data. All it takes is a dropped or stolen laptop, house fire, virus infection, or just a simple hard drive failure due to a manufacturing defect or just simply age. When this happens and you don't have a backup you will have to decided if all of that information is worth paying up to $3000.00 dollars to be recovered. Now services range from about $500.00 - $3000.00 with the average estimate around $1000.00. The true cost in most cases is not determined until the recovery service actually receives and diagnoses your hard drive.
All it takes is a small investment of around $100.00 in an external hard drive to backup your files too. If you backup files from a laptop, keep it seperate. Don't store your backups in your laptop bag bacause if your laptop bag gets stolen, your backups will too. Also if you go on vacation take your backups with you in case your house is broken into or burns down while your away. At least then you will still have you files if your computer is missing or inoperable.
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