Tag: Storage / Hard Drives

How much confident you are that your sensitive data is safe and backed up?

Just imagine your PC with all essential data was stolen, or crashed after your child spills water on it, or destroyed in a fire!!  So what do you do?

Usually, you will be forced to rely up on backup files when some computer disasters happen and your data is in danger. Here’s how you can securely store your crucial data and files

iDrive – Store and Backup all your data on Cloud

From its early stage to till date, cloud storage and backup services are very popular. Finding the best backup service should not be a difficult task!

iDrive is one of the popular cloud backup services available to those looking for best backup and features. So here is an interesting review of the service including what it is, how to use it to backup data, and the features you can enjoy using the cloud storage.

What is iDrive?

As it is mentioned before, iDrive is a cloud service that is specially meant to offer storage and backup for all your files, folders and digital media. With many free services available in the market, iDrive cloud storage and backup is one of the least expensive ways.

Backing up PC files with iDrive

First of all you need to create an encrypted hard drive of 5GB (just for instance) with a secure password. To perform encryption, you can use a method called VeraCrypt.

Once done with that, it’s time to create an encrypted cloud iDrive backup of your encrypted hard drive. Just follow below instructions…

Step 1: At first, sign up for your Free 5GB iDrive account.

Step 2: To make things simple, set your own Private encryption key using the same secure VeraCrypt password.

Warning – Don’t lose this password or you will not be able to recover your files! 

Step 3: Click Continue. It will prompt you to download the iDrive setup file. So download and install the program, launch the iDrive and log in using your newly created account.

Step 4: Click on Change to remove the default folders to backup.

Step 5: Deselect all the default folders and drives. Now select only the newly created drive.

Step 6: Move all of your important documents to your newly created hard drive.

Step 7: Finally when you are finished, click on Start Backup Immediately in iDrive anytime you would like to backup your files.

Need more than 5 GB to backup your important financial documents? iDrive has a very competitive pricing plans for Cloud Backup and Storage – 1PC, 5 PC, and Unlimited.

Not only this, it has a vast support for Windows, Mac and Servers including 64-bit support. It also provides a scheduled backup and continuous backup plan, online storage and backup, free hard-drive transfer, instant access via web and mobile access via app, file synchronization as separate service, and of course a free 5GB account.

iDrive offers many other minor features within their plans and service to prove that no other way is as secure as cloud storage in backup most important credentials through a very less effort.

However, Cloud backup services are all about providing unlimited storage space where you can store all your digital data and restore them at any time. You can be very much sure that your data doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

Even though you get plenty of external hard drives to safeguard your files and folders, but at times you may come across data loss cases. Once who come across such cases you can make use of any trustworthy data recovery tool and get your crucial data back

Protect your confidential data today!

Whatever you own on your computer, it will be on hard drive. From videos, songs, and pictures to programs and preferences, they are all on your computer hard drive. What else you can expect? Even operating system resides on hard disk!

But have you ever wondered how they actually get stored?

To understand how the data is stored on a hard drive completely, you need to first have knowledge on the working of hard drive.

Generally, the hard drive consists of discs placed one on top of another with a gap of few millimeters. We call these discs as “Platters”, which have the capability to hold large amount of data.

Next comes the Arm, which is specially meant to read and write data on the disc. This arm plays an important role in storing the information by stretching out on the platters and moving over them from centre to edge through tiny heads that floats over the platter.

Storage

Usually, the hard drive stores data in the form of zeros and ones.

Whenever you save a file or any information, the “Write” head on the Arm writes the data onto the platter as it spins at high RPM (Revolutions per Minute), often in the range of 4,000.

However, the file just doesn’t disappear anywhere as the computer must be able to locate the file later. When you attempt to open it, the hard drive should locate that particular file. To understand how it works, let’s take an example –

You are trying to open an image file.  Now, the CPU (Central Processing Unit) will inform about the file you are attempting to open. The hard drive will spin fast and finds out the image within nano seconds of time. Then, the drive reads the image and send to CPU back, which further be displayed on your computer screen.

One more instance –

Editing an image, where the hard drive has to save all the changes made on the file! If you click on “Save”, the information along with edited ones will be sent to the CPU which in turn processes it and sends it to the hard drive for storage. Now the hard drive will spin up and the arm will use its “Write” heads to overwrite the previous image with the modified one. That’s all!

Note – Read and Write operations on hard drive will not disturb or delete any other information already available on the drive. That’s why the discs or platters are separated into sectors and tracks. Here, the tracks are the long circular divisions, whereas the sectors represent the small sections of tracks.

This is what the hard drive in your computer does in storing up the data. Now, let us wrap up this discussion with a friendly word of advice:

One of the sad truths about hard drives is, when it is damaged all the data present on it will be lost.  But is possible to recover data from hard disks using reliable tools. This is why the reason you need to have a backup system plan on regular basis, so that you can easily escape from data loss cases if you come across any.

Get another hard drive and copy all your important files onto that.