How to Save Important Information in The Modern World?



Posted: Monday, September 19, 2005

by
LOOK-4IT.COM

Article opens discussion regarding reliability of modern electronic storage media.

Some time ago my hard disk drive had been crashed. I tried to restore at least something from it using special services. But specialists were implacable: hard disk drive is dead without any possibility to restore any information. It's a great pity. I have lost a lot of useful information.

Each, who uses computers, knows that regular backups are necessary to save information from crashes or accidental deletion. It is ABC for each user. But is it true? Does backup copy of some important information guarantee its safety? I think that the answer is not.

How do you create your backups? What do you use? Right! You use another or the same hard disk drive, CD or DVD, floppy disks, streamers, etc. I.e. you use another electronic storage media. Is it safe? Yes and not. From one point of view, modern electronic storage media is quite reliable. But no one of them guarantees 100% of safety. I think it is true. Another hard disk drive, CD, DVD, floppy disk or something else where you keep your backup copy may crash as well. Probability of such accident is always greater than zero.

I create backups as most of you. I use electronic storage media as well. I write backup copies of necessary information at CD. But I do not believe in electronic storage media. Today I know only one reliable storage media. It was invented long time ago in ancient China. It is paper. I write all important information at the paper and I am sure that sheet of paper will not crash.


About the Author:
Michael Kashirin is a webmaster of TRY-2-FIND.COM Meta Search Engine and LOOK-4IT.COM Meta Search Engine.
This Article has been viewed 1,514 times. (Not updated in real-time.)
Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)
» left by Charity
from Zimbabwe 4 years 127 days ago.
Arent we going back? Thought the new era was talking about the paperless office. How than do we then convert whatever is on paper onto electronic form, isnt this a waste of resources? 10 years of paper takes up more space in terms of storage than a backup of all the transactions onto a drive/ any storage media
We want your comments! If you can read this, you don't have javascript enabled, so you can't use this comment system. Please enable javascript.