Maintaining Your Drive; Backup Your Data; Defragmenting And Optimizing A Hard Drive - Acomdata external E5 Serial ATA(SATA) User Manual

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AINTAINING OUR RIVE
A hard drive is a very sophisticated and sensitive device
that requires proper care and maintenance to ensure the
longest possible life, reliable operation, and most of all,
the integrity of your stored data.

Backup Your Data

The single most important action you can take to
safeguard your valuable data is to backup the data to
another storage device. There are many reasons why
data stored on a hard drive can become corrupted or
lost. One of the most common causes of data loss is
human error, such as mistakenly erasing or overwriting
a file.
You should backup your data on a regular basis using a
quality data backup utility. How often depends on how
frequently you save or transfer data to the Drive. If you
save and transfer data to the Drive on a daily basis, then
you should backup your data daily.
Defragmenting and Optimizing
a Hard Drive
A hard drive stores data on disks called platters. Each
platter surface is divided into concentric tracks. Each
track is divided into sections called sectors. A group of
sectors, called a cluster, is the smallest unit of data stor-
age space on a platter.
When data is saved to a new drive, it is written contigu-
ously, one cluster after another. As old files are erased,
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