It is estimated today that over 90% of all data resides not on huge company computers, but rather on the millions and millions of people’s personal computers and now phones. Furthermore approximately 9 out of 10 of those units are NOT BACKED UP.

Now consider this: In 1984 the Macintosh 512k came standard with NO HARD DRIVE, instead it had a 400KB floppy drive, 512KB of RAM (1/2048th of one Gigabyte!) and ran at 8 MHz (1000MHz equals 1GHz) and sold for nearly $3200.00US! Other faster, more expandable units of the day approached $10,000.00! Remember Lisa?

Today, one could buy 6-30 inexpensive DOS-based Windows® PCs for that amount that house storage devices (hard drives) over 500,000,000 times larger, about 10,000 times as much RAM and running on average nearly 400 times faster. That’s what about 25 years of technological advances have given us.

Here’s the major trade-off…I still have a computer like the first one described above that still runs, just like it did in 1987. I can assure you today’s electronics won’t be running 25 years from now-they might make it 25 months before the hard drive fails. It’s a classic “get what you pay for”. On the other hand, do you really want it to run for decades when in a couple years it probably won’t do something you will need, like watch 3-D movies from a site not yet developed.

The point is: BACK UP your data because if you use your computer long enough, IT WILL FAIL-period.