It240 Disaster Plan

It240 Disaster Plan

XYZ Computers Disaster Plan
Kenneth R. Giesbrecht JR
Axia College of University of Phoenix

There are many skeptics in the world that would question whether storing information electronically is a good idea.   What if a natural disaster happened, like a flood?   What would our company do if it lost personnel files, or client information?   How would we get that information back without informing our clients and giving our company a bad reputation?   The computer world has faced many of these obstacles and prepared itself for the future.   Technological scientists gather information daily to ensure that proper security and retrieval of information can be possible for any user.
When considering disasters with information stored on a network or personal computer one might think about RAID. RAID is Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, and is basically a way for the user to increase their performance and/or their fault tolerance. RAID disks are normally found on servers but can be utilized on personal computers.   Although RAID disks are not technically a form of backup they can help restore information lost from a bad hard disk and ensure the user that no data is lost.   There are multiple choices for setting up RAID disks within a system, but after reviewing XYZ computers design RAID 10 would be the best solution to their situation.   RAID 10 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1.   The high read performance from the stripping of the RAID 0, allows all information to be gathered from multiple hard disks simultaneously.   The high write performance from the mirroring effect of the RAID 1, allows information to be duplicated exactly across all hard disks. The mirroring effect allows the user to keep their system operational if a hard disk fails and not lose any information.   RAID 10 provides the user with a truly redundant system with parity checks.
RAID technology may not be a true backup for a company’s network but can help restore information from one hard disk...