Grains BIOS Repair
Data Backup Service
This service is offered to Local customers in the Vale of Glamorgan.
Maybe your PC, Laptop or notebook has ceased to function and you need to access the files contained on the hard drive.
Or perhaps you need to backup your files and data before you dispose of the PC, computer, server, laptop, notebook or hard drive.
We are able to backup your important files to CD ROM for easy access on another machine providing of course the drives storing the data files are still functional.
Damaged Hard Drives
If your hard drive or drives do not function at all and you need files or data backed up. Then you would need to use the Data Recovery Service. In this instance you will need to consider if the data is actually worth the cost of recovery before using the service.
Data Back Up
Data requiring removal from hard drives or machines, can be written to CD ROM on request. All types of files can be saved to another hard drive, CD or DVDROM.
We can back up files of all types, favourites, e-mail, e-mail addresses, and any customer specified files. We can also transfer any data requiring backup to a new machine or a new hard drive should you require it. If you need to use the service please E-mail us.
Taking responsibility for your own Data
Any organisation that depends on data and records being readily available, should have a data backup policy of their own, and hence shouldn't need to use the service provided here. There are always unforeseen problems with mechanical devices such as hard drives. They only have a constant use life expectancy of approximately three years or less. Delicate mechanical devices such as drives do fail for many reasons before they ever reach there full life expectancy.
If your organisation depends on computers and the data that their drives contain, it is of the utmost importance that you have a rigid data backup policy, which should in most cases avoid the need to call in the professional's.
Hard Drives
Unlike everything else that we take for granted nowadays, the typical computer hard drive is a rather delicate device. Since its implementation about 20 years ago, the hard drive has come a long way increasing in size from a few Mega bytes to today's drives which can be well over 500 Gigabyte. Better engineering techniques and the ability to work to finer tolerances has enabled manufacturers to produce very large storage drives with no increase in external psychical size.
They have achieved this by redefining the tracks on the drive platters and also by using better encoding technology. Basically nowadays the hard drive platters contain more tracks than they would have used years ago, effectively doubling or trebling the amount of usable tracks on a 3.5 inch hard drive platter means the drive has twice or three times the capacity.
The read head actuator mechanisms have been redefined effectively increasing drive capacities. As with any other piece of finely tuned machinery the potential for disaster also increases.
There has to be a limit to the amount of tracks that one can fit on a drive platter and maintain reliability. When the limit has been reached, manufacturers simply add one or more extra drive platters. This in turn requires more read heads to enable the drive to function correctly. Effectively this complexity increases the potential for data loss and hard drive disaster once again.
The typical server would have at least 4 Hard drives and sometimes more. They usually have built in drive monitoring utilities such as smart which should indicate when one or more of the drives are starting to fail. This is fine if you take notice and act by changing a defective drive as soon as possible, but if the tech's don't pay attention to these warnings, then your computer or personal server is heading for disaster. Drives should be changed well before they reach their maximum up time to help avoid any future down time.