The lack of reliable data storage is threatening more than just digital information;
it’s threatening the welfare of businesses and individuals. Here are some startling statistics about data storage. We’re trying to turn them around:

Business Statistics

U.S. businesses lose over $12 billion each year from data loss.(rbs.com)
The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% - all drives eventually fail. (rbs.com)
30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year and 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)
93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. 60% will shut down within 6 months. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)

43% of all computer users lose data each year. (Bostoncomputing.net)
A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds in the U.S. (Bostoncomputing.net)
2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every day. (Bostoncomputing.net)
1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime. (Bostoncomputing.net)
Simple drive recovery can cost upwards of $7,500 and success is never guaranteed. (Bostoncomputing.net)
Hardware or system failure accounts for 78% of all data loss. (Bostoncomputing.net)

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