• The average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 71%! MOST ALL DRIVES WILL EVENTUALLY FAIL.
• Only 34% of companies test their tape backups, and of those who do, 77% have found failures.
• 60% of companies that lose their data will go out of business within 6 months of the disaster.
• Over ½ of critical corporate data resides on unprotected PC desktops and laptops.Key causes for data loss are:
  Hardware or system malfunction
  Human error
  Software corruption or program malfunction
  Computer viruses
  Natural disasters

Only 25% of users frequently back up their files, yet 85% of those same users say they are very concerned about losing important digital data.

More than 22% said backing up their PCs was on their to-do list, but they seldom do it.

30% of companies report that they still do not have a disaster recovery program in place, and 2 out of 3 feel their data backup and disaster recovery plans have significant vulnerabilities.

1 in 25 notebooks are stolen, broken or destroyed each year.

Today’s hard drives store 500 times the data stored on the drives of a decade ago. This increased capacity amplifies the impact of data loss, making mechanical precision more critical.

You have a 30% chance of having a corrupted file within a one-year time frame.

*Source: VaultLogix