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A Few Disturbing Data Tidbits

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Judy Mottl
Judy Mottl
Feb 4, 2008

Don’t think those bucks spent on data security and protection are paying off? 

Just consider these few factoids about computer data loss from Data Deposit Box:

  • A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds
  • 32% of data loss is caused by human error
  • 25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive
  • 44% of data loss caused by mechanical failures
  • 1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime
  • The overall average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% – all
    drives eventually fail

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