- Fire, natural & man-made catastrophic events - Whether it's a fire at your office or factory, power surge, flooding or lightening strike, your valuable computer data is at risk of being obliterated from a catastrophic event
- Disk failure - During the last decade computer disks have become more reliable, creating a false sense of security. Disks are mechanical devices operating at very close tolerances All computer hard drives will fail eventually, it's just a question of when. It is also not possible to predict with certainty when a disk failure will occur
- Data corruption - Data can be corrupted by software bugs in programs, operating systems and controllers, sudden loss of power, power surges, lightening or simply running out of disk space
- Malicious attack - From an external source such as a virus, hacker or even a disgruntled employee
- Human error - This can range from the accidental deletion of a single file or a database right through to the formatting of a disk or disk array
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