Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday October 16, 2003 @01:28PM from the email-and-mp3s-of-the-damned dept.

bettiwettiwoo writes "The BBC has a article on the Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data due to the human factor. According to Kroll Ontrack, a recovery firm, the top ten include: laptop being shot in anger (naturally); laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry (some laptops just weren't meant to live); server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt; and my personal favourite, laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts. One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't. Instead she had her mother pop in at regular intervals to remind her to save manually."

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60 GB USB 2.0 harddrive for $50!!!! by pj737 · 2003-10-16 18:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

US Logics has a USB 2.0 60 GB harddrive for sale at CompUSA right now - $115 but get $65 in rebates to bring the total to $50!!!
That's less than $1 per "portable" GB. Not bad at all.
I bought two...