This is the story of the death of my hard drive, and its subsequent effects on my life. One long and stormy night, I was intently working away on my latest crime drama novel. As I so cleverly began typing on the last page, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, suddenly, my computer screen went dark. I wondered, “Did my joke about Jack bring some malevolent spirit to kill my computer?”
Alas, as humorous as this may sound, hard drive disasters are no joke. Every week, 140,000 hard drives crash in the US alone. 6% of all computers will suffer an episode of data loss yearly. Given the amount of computers used by businesses, this 6% translates to approximately 4.6 million losses of data. Some hard drive brands are particularly susceptible to failure. 60% of companies that lost their data, will shut their doors within 6 months of the disaster. The staggering cost of this loss comes in at over 20 billion dollars. With shocking statistics like these, it only illustrates the dependency we have on our computers.
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