Post by cjm on Jan 23, 2015 15:03:15 GMT
So how about storage in the cloud?
So you’ve headed the warnings of the experts and you’ve been fastidiously backing up your precious data on which so much of our lives now depend, but we’re afraid you’re not out of the woods yet.
Digital information, or data, is not friends with the laws of thermodynamics. Although your accounts, wedding photos and that novel you’ve been working on for several years now, is safe from theft and freak floods on your new backup external hard drive, there’s no escaping the slow decay of digital information in the physical world it is kept in.
- See more at: www.popularmechanics.co.za/science/time-taking-byte-backups/#sthash.8BirCeqL.dpuf
Digital information, or data, is not friends with the laws of thermodynamics. Although your accounts, wedding photos and that novel you’ve been working on for several years now, is safe from theft and freak floods on your new backup external hard drive, there’s no escaping the slow decay of digital information in the physical world it is kept in.
- See more at: www.popularmechanics.co.za/science/time-taking-byte-backups/#sthash.8BirCeqL.dpuf