Sentences with phrase «hard disk failure»

Cloud storage allows consumers to retrieve their data from any location using any device and can provide critical backups in the case of hard disk failure.

Recovering from a hard disk failure without backups is a great waste of PhD productivity.

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A failure suggests the hard disk has been improperly formatted or is missing essential start - up files, the hard - disk controller card is defective, the hard disk is defective, or the motherboard is defective.

Honan admits that he's partly to blame, for daisy - chaining three online accounts so that the failure of one would lead to the failure of the next; for putting his street address on his personal website's domain registration (when a P.O. box would have worked); for not backing up his laptop to a physical disk; for not using two - factor authentication on his Gmail account; and, worst of all, for enabling his iCloud account to wipe his laptop's hard drive.

So if you'd prefer redundancy to one large hard drive, you can always buy a couple smaller disks, and diversify where you store your files in case of hard drive failure — either manually, or by setting up a RAID array (which we'll discuss later in the article).

And despite their dual construction, the failure rate of hybrid drives is about the same as standard HDDs, as the flash - based cache is unlikely to fail before the physical hard disk.

That way, if a power failure occurs, Windows can restore your work from your hard disk.

Fragmented files on your hard disks are considered to be one of the reasons behind your PC's slow performance, long boot times, erratic restart, and sometimes even disk failure.