Greetings Again!

I hope you enjoy another week of Tech Tails and learn a little something. We have some very interesting articles for you this week. I am one of the technicians in the Manchester, NH store, and one thing I always seem to notice is how little people backup their data. Unfortunately, since most people have SATA hard drives rather than solid state drives, many will experience hard drive failure at some point in their computer lives.

There are the obvious ways, such as a clicking sound, but there are other signs as well. Frequent freezing and/or a flashing folder-slash-“blue screen of death” (for Windows users) are some. If you begin to find files that fail to open and are corrupted even though you may have saved them without errors, they could be indicating another form of hard drive failure.

Of course, various other symptoms can seemingly be unrelated to hard drive failure at first, so you should automatically be making a backup of your data (just in case).

We’re here to help diagnose the problem if you see or hear any of these signs. If you are not currently backing up your data, we have solutions and ways to teach you and get you up and running. With so much based on computer processes, it’s never been a more important time.

Have a great week everyone!

Barry
barry@smalldog.com