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The Return of Removable Hard Disk Drive Architecture
Overview
Disk drive fragility has a dramatic effect on overall data loss in the industry and is a primary reason for data backup. Statistical data shows that shock and physical abuse of computers represent 44% of all data loss. Data loss associated with notebooks and portable computers is even more drastic. Statistics show that 8% of all portable devices are damaged every year with an average hardware repair cost of $1,200. With 50 million notebooks in circulation worldwide, this represents an annual hardware loss of $4.8 billion and the value of lost data is not even included in this number.
Since computer architecture is standardized on fixed disk drives, data exchange, backup, and archival applications have been delegated to other peripheral devices such as floppy disk drives, CD-RW, DVD-RAM, tape drive systems, and cartridge-based drives such as the Iomega JAZ or Castlewood ORB. None of these products compare in capacity, performance, or price per megabyte to that of the hard disk drive, but until now, there was other convenient solution available on the market.
| Publisher | DataZONE | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 6 |
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