10 years of work on his laptop without a single backup?
I agree with nebulus4.... you would be surprised... The average to below average end user has no understanding that a hard drive has moving parts that can and will fail. Only more computer savvy people have backups. Normally it takes a major loss of data before someone begins backing up religiously. Most people just get lucky and either change PCs frequently or just lose everything and deal with it.
At least it's Western Digital, because Seagate drives sure suck lately (looks at the stack of dead Seagate drives).
I agree with that!!! I have seen so many dead Seagate drives over the last year that are either DOA or only lasted a few months. I was buying them because of the better warranty they were offering but the hassle is simply not worth it. So I switched back to WD and will only buy them for now on for me and my customers.
This is great news for misers like me. I like to wait for the new stuff to show up so I can snatch up good deals on the 2nd or even 3rd gen stuff at great prices. Since the 1 TB drives are already getting really cheap, this just means that I might be able to get some 2TB drives even cheaper and get a deal on those 2TB WD Black drives with the 2 read heads that are supposedly great drives with a great warranty and not spend a ton.
If they are so worried about it then just wipe the drives. You can purchase for a reasonable amount of money a utility that will wipe a drive to DOD spec and it couldn't possibly any longer to do that than to run 3 or 4 different scans from various companies.
It's a common misconception that AOL's primary business is still dial-up access. They make more money nowadays with their content sites like TMZ, Moviefone, Engadget, etc.
Well I was thinking the same thing that roman was... I can't believe that AOL still is in business. They are owned by Time Warner right? Or the other way around? I know Time Warner in my area is now Comcast. I'm curious.
The idea of Facebook and Microsoft teaming up together is very scary. Two companies riddled with security flaws... Those running the botnets are smiling from ear to ear because they see more victims.
I seem to recall that this was a story about 6 months ago or so. I will say that what is considered private is relative when it comes to technology and doing anything online. Just like security cameras and doing anything outside your home... There is "no reasonable expectation of privacy".
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10 years of work on his laptop without a single backup?
I agree with nebulus4.... you would be surprised... The average to below average end user has no understanding that a hard drive has moving parts that can and will fail. Only more computer savvy people have backups. Normally it takes a major loss of data before someone begins backing up religiously. Most people just get lucky and either change PCs frequently or just lose everything and deal with it.
At least it's Western Digital, because Seagate drives sure suck lately (looks at the stack of dead Seagate drives).
I agree with that!!! I have seen so many dead Seagate drives over the last year that are either DOA or only lasted a few months. I was buying them because of the better warranty they were offering but the hassle is simply not worth it. So I switched back to WD and will only buy them for now on for me and my customers.
This is great news for misers like me. I like to wait for the new stuff to show up so I can snatch up good deals on the 2nd or even 3rd gen stuff at great prices. Since the 1 TB drives are already getting really cheap, this just means that I might be able to get some 2TB drives even cheaper and get a deal on those 2TB WD Black drives with the 2 read heads that are supposedly great drives with a great warranty and not spend a ton.
If they are so worried about it then just wipe the drives. You can purchase for a reasonable amount of money a utility that will wipe a drive to DOD spec and it couldn't possibly any longer to do that than to run 3 or 4 different scans from various companies.
It's a common misconception that AOL's primary business is still dial-up access. They make more money nowadays with their content sites like TMZ, Moviefone, Engadget, etc.
Well I was thinking the same thing that roman was... I can't believe that AOL still is in business. They are owned by Time Warner right? Or the other way around? I know Time Warner in my area is now Comcast. I'm curious.
The idea of Facebook and Microsoft teaming up together is very scary. Two companies riddled with security flaws... Those running the botnets are smiling from ear to ear because they see more victims.
I seem to recall that this was a story about 6 months ago or so. I will say that what is considered private is relative when it comes to technology and doing anything online. Just like security cameras and doing anything outside your home... There is "no reasonable expectation of privacy".