Do it Yourself: RE: [DIY] Help

17 November 2014

RE: [DIY] Help

My department manages and maintains thousands of pc’s. If a power supply goes out while the hard drive

has cached data or while it’s writing to the hard drive, it can indeed corrupt the drive enough that data on the

drive can be lost. However, in all the time we’ve experienced power supply failures, I can only recall once or twice where

data was actually lost. Dell had a run of Optiplex pc’s that had a bad production run of power supplies. We literally had so many

fail that Dell send us dozens of spare power supplies so we could get the pc’s back to the users as quickly as possible.

However, it’s extremely rare to destroy the hard drive unless the power supply had a power surge that spiked

the hard drive and fried the drives components but does certainly happen.

This is another reason to do frequent backups of your hard drive. It may not save the hard drive from having to

be replaced but drives are cheap where loss of data can be very costly.

-aki

From: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com [mailto:DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 12:39 PM
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DIY] Help

Not so. I have turned off the power to my computer a number of times. No catastrophic loss of info. This is a new form of phishing.

KrazyKyngeKorny (Krazy, not stupid)

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 7:56 AM, carmen mom2mini@bellsouth.net [DoIt_Yourself] <DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On Nov 16, 2014, at 12:31 AM, Dale S dalu@hbcomm.net [DoIt_Yourself] wrote:

I have experienced a catastrophic power supply failure which resulted in
the loss of all of my email information. If I am in your email address
book please send me something so that I can begin recovering my addresses.

carmen stuart
Brightwood Aviary
http://brightwoodaviary.com
Dawsonville, Ga.
770 889-0353