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Reliability of Hardware a Top Concern Among IT Professionals
What happens when you take active computer electronics and put them inside a fire safe? Most IT professionals would agree that you get a build up of heat - one of the top reasons for hard drive failure and a core reason for fan cooling of servers, laptops and business class computer equipment.
As the new industry of disaster ready data storage emerges there are several considerations that need to be taken into account. When engineering a reliable piece of data storage hardware that can also withstand a raging fire, flood, or even water sprinkler systems there are many fundamental concerns that come to mind.
Heat Build Up / Heat Transfer
Cooling the backup hard disk drives is of utmost importance inside a fireproof safe - whether by fan or other means your hard drives don't like heat!
Storage Capacity
Your data storage requirements are continually growing. When your business invests into data storage hardware a scalable solution that allows for this growth provides the greatest return on investment (ROI). Consider a product that allows room for growth!
Data Disaster Recovery
When your primary or even your backup disk goes through a disaster like fire or flood how will you get your data recovered? What type of data recovery service is available? Can data be recovered from a disk that has been through a fire or flood? Yes it can, and here is a very interesting video example on YouTube told by Steven Hill of Network Computing Magazine.
Hard Disk Recovery
Everyone knows that hard drives fail, it's the nature of computer hardware. But how do you recover your data if your drive fails inside a fireproof hard drive or NAS?
Data Redundancy
Even if your business has invested money and time into a data backup device and plan for recovery you still need to consider your strategy for recovery from fire or flood. In this type of situation you can simply add a fireproof hard drive to your current system and store your most business critical data on this external backup device. This will ensure that you are prepared for any disaster that might occur.
Every day there are examples of business fires occurring in the local newspaper and while your insurance policy can replace your desks, tables and chairs, how can you replace your data? This question alone should raise a few eyebrows as according to various studies 90% of businesses fail after a data disaster.
Plan ahead and prevent business data loss from disaster. When you consider the purchase of a fireproof hard drive or fire safe NAS (network attached storage) device make sure you take the above points into consideration.
