Why your hard drive crash or failure happens? Clone Mac for data safety

We can say our hard drive is queen of our system because it consist all of your documents. It stores all files including,user files, system files and OS and all our personal and confidential stuff. we are living in computer era and today people are more concern about their data protection.

So, here question arises that is there anyway to protect our hard drive from failure or corruption - the answer is NO.

It means we can't assure that our hard drive is safe, infact we can only avoid some reasons causing drive failure or crash like overheating etc. But, we can't handle it in actual because of no control over its working mechanism and all above its a machine so can crash anytime.

Now I am going to take you beyond the basics:-

Most of us are not aware of details of hard drive although they are using it daily but without knowing that its an amazing piece of engineering. Every hard drive consist a number of circular platters, that are extremely thin and made from glass/ceramic material, spinning at 7200rpm(revolutions per minute) or more. 

 

Means when you leave your hard drive then every day, each platter of your drive will spin 3,784 million times in a year. Read/write head of your hard drive is floating just nanometers away from these platters.

These read/write heads as the name suggests are the part of your hard drive that reads and writes data to the drive.

When the head passes over the drive, the surface of the platters get magnetised in a series of 0s and 1s. So, the drive has to carry this work without crashing these read write heads into the platter because it can damage drive. 

 

According to a study on millions of drive by Google, approximately there's a one-in-three chance failure of a drive in five years of use. These figures might sound like reassuring to us - because one drive in three over five years of usage doesn't sound bad. But, this assurance can be false.

So, Google's released that nearly 3% of hard drives failed in two months. Just suppose that if your drive is one of that 3%, then without a proper backup or clone of your drive you will have lost your vital data. 

 

The only way to keep your data safe from any loss is by taking regular backups.

clone Mac is must to ensure your drive and data safety. You can minimize chances of drive failure by replacing your drive with new advanced Solid-state disks (SSDs). Mac users are mainly seen to use SSD in their Mac machine because SSD are less prone to failure. This is due to the reason that these drives don't have any moving parts like platters etc. This will suggests that these drives should be more reliable than spining disks. 

 

However, according to hardware.fr a French tech site survey of hard drive failure rates, specifically in the first few months Solid State Drives were no less prone to failure or crash than spinning conventional drive. 

 

SSDs life can be rated in terms of its write cycles and a typical Solid State Disks might be rated at 100,000 cycles. Actually a hard drives write about thousands of times in a day.

Here the conclusion is there is no such a thing that will last forever, this means that cloning should be top of your agenda.

There are several kinds of cloning apps there in the market,and which one will be suitable for you depends tottaly on your needs. My recommendations as a most complete kind of cloning tool is probably the most simple,efficient and reliable one. 

 

Recommended tool:

For Mac machines- Stellar Drive Clone(work on multiboot Mac also)

For Windows: Clonezilla