Computers are wonderful inventions, until they go wrong. Every company stores data on its computers, instead of in filing cabinets. That data includes invoices payable, customer details, debts, etc. If something goes wrong with the computer hard drive the data could be lost. Every day, companies go out of business because of catastrophic data loss caused by computer crashes.

Large companies do back up their data, but what about the one-man company where the paperwork is done on a Sunday morning? More and more people are working from home on personal computers that have zero protection against data loss caused by hard disk failure or power surges.

Every company, large or small should back up their data, preferably to an alternative location, yet most one-man businesses fail to follow this basic survival strategy because of the time it takes to back up the data each day.

Even these companies need to develop the habit of backing up all customer information to a removable hard disk, pen-drive or similar, or to a CD/DVD. Another alternative is to buy a RAID hard drive for your PC. These drives save your data to more than one hard disk, and check for inconsistencies between the two or more data sets. If there are differences then this can be a sign that one of the hard disks will fail soon, enabling you to avoid losing the data in the first place.

Hard drive disks spin at up to 8,000 revolutions a minute, They are highly engineered, but, because they have moving parts, wear occurs, and disks stop working.

There are many companies who will attempt to retrieve your data from a non-functional hard drive. The service is not cheap, and if you employ a contractor to do this who is not using the correct software, you have a 50% chance of your data being totally destroyed.

If your company depends on that data for its survival, and it does, the high cost is worth it. Much better though, to get into the habit of backing up your data every night

“Atari has selected StarForce to protect their new video game called Race Vehicle driver 2”, a supervisor from StarForce has actually stated today.
“Race Chauffeur 2” is produced by Codemasters and also distributed by Atari. It was launched in Taiwan in July 2004. The video game is developed for both PC and also Microsoft Xbox platforms. The item is distributed on DVD discs secured by StarForce.
Atari is a leading international author and developer of interactive home entertainment for both pc gaming fanatics and the mass-market target market. The company’s products are based upon internally created intellectual properties or items certified from 3rd parties, and include most recognizable names in prominent show business.
This is the second instance of Atari’s participation with StarForce. Earlier they made use of StarForce to safeguard their hit video game– “Desert Rats VS Afrika Korps”.
Both titles are protected utilizing the StarForce Expert 3.0 service. StarForce Expert 3.0 utilizes most current copy defense know-how as well as supplies a high degree of safety yet being a really usable service for end customers. StarForce Expert is made to aid software program programmers and publishers to suppress high-volume industrial piracy in addition to unlawful copying by end users. The defense modern technologies implementation does not require authors to utilize any special devices for an accredited disc manufacturing, high quality control, or various other procedures.
Delighted with the top quality of StarForce solution and also proven performance of the firm’s modern technologies, Atari is preparing to proceed its collaboration with StarForce in the local future.