External hard drive recovery software and 9 maintenance skills

As external hard drive has increasingly used as a storage device for us, data loss also frequently happens on us. Some data loss cases are due to human improper operations, while others are due to external hard drive problems. In order to avoid the possible hardware failure, you need to pay more attention to maintenance your external hard drive. Here are some maintenance skills of External hard drive.

1. Use the option of safe remove hardware.

In any case, you should safely remove your external hard drive from your computer. You may have always forcibly unplug your USB devices and have no data loss for this wrong operation, but it doesn’t mean that you will have never have a data loss. Every time you remove the external hard drive from computer, you should click to safely remove the drive, or some data will be damaged. More serious, it may lead to causes drive problems.

2. Avoid excessive impact on external hard drive

Collision will affect some of the mechanical components on external hard drive. Therefore, you should take your external hard drive with care.

3. Keep your external hard drive away from water

You should carefully enough to avoid splash water on the hard drive. And keep it away from water and humid environment.

4. Keep external hard drive away from magnetic field

Magnet can affect the normal work of hard drive and even damage the platter.

5. Do not frequently unplug the USB cable plug

Frequent unplug of USB cable will lead to the USB connector is easily to worn out and damage the controller.

6. Avoid overheat of external hard drive

Make your external hard drive has a good ventilation to dissipate the excess heat which can cause damage on drive.

Continually use also lead to overheat. So you should not use the drive continually.

7. Avoid sudden power failure of computer

You should safely remove the external hard drive first before shut down the computer. Avoid any kind of power failure which can lead to bad sectors on external hard drive.

8. Run a antivirus software to scan the external drive regularly

Virus will lead to data loss on external drive and even will damage the drive.

9. Provide enough power supply for external hard drive

If your external hard drive has a capacity over 10 GB, the USB cable cannot provide enough power, so you should use a DC stabilized power supply.

If you have followed all the above maintenance tips, your external hard drive will have less chance to be failed and data loss will be reduced. Once you have a data loss on external hard drive, the external hard drive recovery software can help you to retrieve the lost files before the data overwritten happen.