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The Importance of Data Backups for Your Business
Background
In a perfect world we would never be concerned about our computers failing, nor would we have to worry about natural disaster, physical theft or human error. Our business critical data would never be at risk from any of these factors and we could sleep easy at night, taking comfort from this knowledge.
Sadly we do [...]
Swimming Laptop
When a glass of liquid is spilled over a laptop or into a computer, the first thing you should do is pull out the power lead and remove the battery. The liquid itself is unlikely to harm the machine, it’s only when there is power running through it and the liquid causes a short circuit [...]
Re-Build vs. Moans
All too often when somebody leaves a company and hands their laptop or PC back to the IT support department, the machine is simply passed back out to another user with perhaps a cursory clean-up at most. This almost always results in the problems that the first user has left on the machine, being passed on [...]
Recovering From Cheap RAID Syndrome
In a previous post we spoke about the cost benefits of purchasing an entry level HP server, the ML115, but also how its basic on-board NVIDIA RAID functionality lacks performance and makes recovery difficult. In this thread we discuss one method of recovery that can be used following a system board replacement. When the system board [...]
The Curse of The Cheap Server
When trying to sell a new server to a small business, say less than 5 users, it’s often only considered a viable option if the cost of the hardware is kept to a minimum. HP have an entry level server solution in the form of the Proliant ML115, which is essentially a fully loaded PC [...]
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