Hardware prices have come down considerably over the last decade, but that does not mean we do not need to keep the hardware installed on the computer, especially the hard drive. Hard Drive is a precious commodity that contains the data that we use to do the job. Therefore, we give the best care. Indeed, no doubt, hard drives eventually die. However, you can take steps to prevent premature death hard. Let's look at the steps to the health care drive.
Run chkdsk
Harddisk eventually contain errors. Error can be in the form of physical problems, software problems, issues partition table, and much more. Problems such as bad sectors, lost clusters, file scattered, adan / or error directory will be handled by the program tried chkdsk. Error can cause the hard drive can not boot and eventually downtime. The best way is to use chkdsk to run at next boot with the command chkdsk X: If. (X is the drive to be checked). The command will tell you that the hard drive is locked and will ask if you want to run chkdsk when the system restarts. Select Y to affirm that action.
Use Utility Monitoring
Many applications out there that can be used to monitor kesahatan our hard drive. One is the Acronis Drive Monitor will monitor everything from hard drive temperature to percentage of free space. Tool that can be set to send an e-mail notification if there is something wrong with the hard drive being monitored. Pembertitahuan it is a simple way to remain proactive in anticipation of a hard drive failure.
Installing the Operating System And Data In Seperate
By separating the data to a different hard drive, reading / writing on the hard drive where the installation of the operating system (OS) will be much less because many operations I / Q occurs in the hard drive data. In doing so, we extend the life of the hard drive where OS is installed and simplify the transfer of data if the hard drive fails SO.
Air Circulation Enough
Although adequate air circulation problem really is not to say, there are still many people who still ignore it. Perhaps you've seen the PC is placed a small closet with no circulation. Obviously the PC will be in hot conditions that shorten the life of components in it. From the PC to enter a narrow and there is no air space, give plenty of circulation space. If you need to clarify your PC into a narrow place, at least provide ventilation and add a fan to suck the hot air out of PC. Not without reason the developers allocate so much time and money on cooling your PC so we have things like liquid cooling and advanced cooling systems for data centers.
Static Flow alert
Another problem is not really worth mentioning again is a static flow is an enemy of computer components. Before handling components, make sure you neutralize yourself, especially in the winter or dry didaerahudara. If you like getting a shock every time you touch the hard drive, it's a sign that you should be extra careful when handling the hard drive. Note also laying drive. Sometimes there are those among us who put on speakers, TVs and household appliances / other software that can generate electromagnetic waves. Indeed, a large magnet on sebegian equipment / device is not strong enough to remove the hard drive, but we did not need to take risks, right?
Disk Defragmentation
Drive a fragmented encouraged to work harder than it should be, though, all hard drives must be used in the most efficient conditions to avoid excessive usage or wear, including defragmentation. To be safe, set your PC to perform defragmentation every week. Its function is to extend the life of the hard drive by keeping the file structure to make it more efficient so that the head does not read too much or frequent moves.
Perform Power Savings
Almost on every OS you can configure the hard disk to be quiet after a certain time interval. In some older OS, the disk will be spinning 24/7 that will drastically shorten the life of the hard drive. By default, Windows 7 uses the Balanced power plan that will shut down the hard drive after 10-20 minutes of inactivity. If you change it to a shorter time interval, you can increase the life of the hard drive. However, do not drive too often "sleep". Keep the time interval of not less than 15 minutes because when you sleep, the hard drive is not spinning. If the hard drive is not spinning, no energy is available.
Backup
All the stuff there is life. In the end, the hard drive will die. No matter how careful you are, no matter how many steps you take to prevent failures, hard drive will eventually die. If you have a backup, at least movement from one hard drive to the laintidak be difficult. By using backup utility, you can mestransfer image from one hard drive to another hard drive without any difficulty.
