{"id":9618,"date":"2011-03-31T09:24:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=9618"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:34:27","slug":"make-sure-your-data-is-safe-for-world-backup-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/9618-make-sure-your-data-is-safe-for-world-backup-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Make sure your data is safe for World Backup Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s probably pretty safe to say that we here at OWC are pretty enthusiastic<\/a> about backing up<\/a>. Nothing can wreak more havoc on your stress levels than discovering that your irreplaceable data has disappeared forever due to a hardware or software failure. While the adage \u201cThere are two kinds of people with hard drives: those who have had a failure and those who will,\u201d<\/strong> still rings true, the trick is to be prepared and that\u2019s something we\u2019ve promoted heavily over the years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we were surprised when we heard about World Backup Day<\/a>; we\u2019re not above celebrating somewhat off-beat \u201cholidays\u201d<\/a> here at OWC, but this event promoting something we wholeheartedly believe in somehow escaped our attention.<\/p>\n

Well, we are no longer remiss observing this movement, and we\u2019re not the only ones. The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)<\/a> are holding a contest today, March 31, in observance of World Backup Day and we\u2019re helping out by furnishing a couple of NewerTech StoraDrive cases<\/a>, a couple of Voyager S3 drive docks<\/a> and a 1.0TB Mercury Elite-AL Pro Storage Solution<\/a> as prizes. After all, if you\u2019re going to back up, you better have the gear needed for such a purpose.<\/p>\n

So head on over to TUAW and enter the contest<\/a>…that link and the first giveaway is scheduled to go live between 11:00-11:30AM ET. We hope you win. But even if you don\u2019t, though, you can\u2019t lose by celebrating World Backup Day – today and every day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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