The hard drive is one important tool to us today, as it assists in backing up our files and also helps us in the saving process. Sometimes, when our computer drives are filled up, it is essential that we get a hard drive so that we can easily store up our data there for usage of the future. This is a very common practice today, But it might surprise you to know that lots of persons actually do not care about the hard drive, until maybe it contacts a virus and they lost their files, or maybe it gets corrupt, today am gonna talk about some ways we can maintain and care for our hard drives.
1. Leave the Hard Drive Flat
If your hard drive is a magnetic external hard drive then you should always allow it to lay flat since it was produced to be that way. Hard drives of this nature are more like a record play, due to the great design of the hard drive there is a niddle that moves toward the platter but no matter how fast it moves it cannot touch it, so when you have a hard drive that is suppose to lay flat and maybe you turn it around. This may lead to the niddle in the hard drive going ether too far or two closer to the platter and this may be damaging to the processing speed and performance of your hard drive.
2. Scan the hard drive for errors
This is also another way to maintain our hard drive, we simply can insert the hard drive in the computer, and scan it with your anti virus for errors.. Although it’s not essential to carry this test out often, it’s worth doing every once in a while.
3. Cables Maintenance
Sometimes, the kind of cable we use with our external hard drive really matters. So at all times we want to always make sure that the connection between our hard drive and the cable are intact in order for us not to loose the files in our hard drive due to an unexpected disconnection. This could also occur while your transferring/moving files. the result on the hard drive may be fatal as time goes on, hence we wanna watch this aspect seriously. Using short cables can me more efficient and faster, sometimes longer cables really does help but they can easily develop one fault or the other and starts the connecting and disconnecting process...
3. Make sure you buy a good hard drive
most times, the cause of all these problems may not be laying it flat or the cable, although they have their own problems they add, but the main reasons for such problems is that sometimes we go for hard drives that are not good, simply because they are affordable.
There are lots of hard drives in our locality today, and the best practise should be choosing a hard drive that will work best for you and you alone. Going for hard drives that are cheap or sold in non computer gadgets stores may be detrimental to us..
To confirm this, when i bought a 500GB hard drive sometime ago it was about 14000 naira, and it contained a very tight table i used this for over 2 years before misplacing it, but recently when i got a 320GB hard drive, OH MY GOODNESS, is was crap, i got it 7000 naira and to my surprise the hard drive came with come with loose cables and an inferior hardware inside.
Doing some little research about hard drives before going to buy them can be a best practise, as it can save you from buying fake and UN-durable hard drives, so after researching about a particular hard drive, looking for it is the next stage..
4. ALWAYS EJECT
This is common with some persons, after using the external hard drive, they open "MY COMPUTER" and right click on the the hard drive partition to look for eject, and once EJECT is not found, they just remove the USB cable from the system. If your doing this, you really have to stop because your causing great damage to your hard drive and the files you have inside.
5. KEEP AWAY FROM DUST
Always have an enemy named dust, always prevent your hard drive from dust at all times, always clean it at all times.
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1. Leave the Hard Drive Flat
If your hard drive is a magnetic external hard drive then you should always allow it to lay flat since it was produced to be that way. Hard drives of this nature are more like a record play, due to the great design of the hard drive there is a niddle that moves toward the platter but no matter how fast it moves it cannot touch it, so when you have a hard drive that is suppose to lay flat and maybe you turn it around. This may lead to the niddle in the hard drive going ether too far or two closer to the platter and this may be damaging to the processing speed and performance of your hard drive.
2. Scan the hard drive for errors
This is also another way to maintain our hard drive, we simply can insert the hard drive in the computer, and scan it with your anti virus for errors.. Although it’s not essential to carry this test out often, it’s worth doing every once in a while.
3. Cables Maintenance
Sometimes, the kind of cable we use with our external hard drive really matters. So at all times we want to always make sure that the connection between our hard drive and the cable are intact in order for us not to loose the files in our hard drive due to an unexpected disconnection. This could also occur while your transferring/moving files. the result on the hard drive may be fatal as time goes on, hence we wanna watch this aspect seriously. Using short cables can me more efficient and faster, sometimes longer cables really does help but they can easily develop one fault or the other and starts the connecting and disconnecting process...
3. Make sure you buy a good hard drive
most times, the cause of all these problems may not be laying it flat or the cable, although they have their own problems they add, but the main reasons for such problems is that sometimes we go for hard drives that are not good, simply because they are affordable.
There are lots of hard drives in our locality today, and the best practise should be choosing a hard drive that will work best for you and you alone. Going for hard drives that are cheap or sold in non computer gadgets stores may be detrimental to us..
To confirm this, when i bought a 500GB hard drive sometime ago it was about 14000 naira, and it contained a very tight table i used this for over 2 years before misplacing it, but recently when i got a 320GB hard drive, OH MY GOODNESS, is was crap, i got it 7000 naira and to my surprise the hard drive came with come with loose cables and an inferior hardware inside.
Doing some little research about hard drives before going to buy them can be a best practise, as it can save you from buying fake and UN-durable hard drives, so after researching about a particular hard drive, looking for it is the next stage..
4. ALWAYS EJECT
This is common with some persons, after using the external hard drive, they open "MY COMPUTER" and right click on the the hard drive partition to look for eject, and once EJECT is not found, they just remove the USB cable from the system. If your doing this, you really have to stop because your causing great damage to your hard drive and the files you have inside.
5. KEEP AWAY FROM DUST
Always have an enemy named dust, always prevent your hard drive from dust at all times, always clean it at all times.
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