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10/03/2022

3 TIPS TO INCREASE YOUR HARD DISK LIFE SPAN
There are so many tips to help increase your hard disk life span, but we’d be sharing only 3 with you today
Shut Them Down
If your hard drive is shut down, you aren't using up its remaining life. While turning off your computer can extend your drive's life, taking advantage of your computer's drive shut down feature does the same thing. It also gives you the convenience of leaving your computer on, while still saving your drive. Shutting your drives down also saves electricity.
Defragment it.
When your drives are fragmented it means that the data stored on them has become separated on the disk. Imagine trying to play a record but to get the whole song you had to skip the needle to different parts of the record manually. Defragmentation puts everything together so that the read/write head has to travel the least distance possible. This speeds things up and also prolongs the life of your drive by decreasing wear and tear.
Most modern operating systems will do this for you automatically but it is worth checking it is doing a good job from time to time.
Monitor it.
Modern hard drives have a lot of error reporting capabilities and will tell you if there is something wrong. It seems a shame that the days of maintaining goods are behind us and that it is so easy to just replace something but that’s the times we live in and hard drives are very hard to maintain. So monitor your drive well and if it looks like there is something a miss, investigate and troubleshoot it might be something that can be fixed if it is dealt with soon enough.

Keeping up with the above and other tasks may be too much for your staffs to handle, therefore its best that you work with a company that offers corporate computer maintenance like CONIAH SYSTEM SUPPORT TO HELP YOU HANDLE IT.

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