Tech Spot

Why do Hard Drives Die? The Hard Drive in your computer Hard Drives are part of the backbone of any computer's functionality. Without a Hard drive you do not have a functioning computer. There are many types of Hard drives, and unless you have a mobile device or bought your computer yesterday you likely have a HDD. Today there are two common drives for consumer computers HDD and SSD. We will cover these two today. HDD (Hard Disk Drive) This drive literally has a spinning disk inside of it and there is a read/ write head that reads and writes. Over time I am sure you can imagine this drive breaks down. It can only take so many reads and writes from the head. Imagine a record player or a cd, these get scratched, an HDD does not get scratched but it gets worn. The wear is not something you can see without magnification. Repair is optional, however this is expensive and considering the price of this many opt to just replace as you can buy most HDD's for under $100. ...

About me Fresh out of school I starting working for a break fix shop. I did the typical items replace hard drives, upgrade memory and we did a lot of refurbishing in this shop. I also worked with the commercial clients onsite. I quickly learned that break fix is no big money maker especially in a small market. Basically the owner told me there was no money in break fix computer repair and I would do better to find another career path, which was frustrating as this was my chosen path. I also realized that computers were the future of course and there had to be more to this story. Eventually I left the break fix shop after about 4 years there. During that time I presented the owner with multiple business plans. Many had a built recurring model and this was not accepted. I learned that I would have to do this on my own. So I left for another job. I took a business development role at a national water filtration company bottled water company. I sold and marketed a delivery service or...