Hard Drive Life Expectancy and How It Impacts You
One of the things that most small business owners do not think about when it comes to the PCs in their office is the hard drive inside each of their computers. The common thought is akin to that of the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so as long as the computers work and employees are able to perform their duties then there is no reason to spend time thinking about the health of the computers in the office. Unfortunately there is no visible wear indicator on a hard drive unless you get a warning from your operating system that a failure has occurred. If there is any indication that the drive is starting to go bad, it might be hard to notice if it is just adding to other compounding issues. Hard drives are one of very few items in the computer is a wear item. Solid state drives are more resilient than traditional spinning disk drives. Gaining in popularity, but due to their cost vs. storage space metric, solid state drives are not taking the lead in media storage in prebuilt desktops...