Your business can’t afford to come to a grinding halt because of a compromised desktop computer. While a sound data protection plan is essential for a business of any size, you may find yourself facing a few obstacles in your path, from lack of a managed network to no existing backup devices, to setting expectations for users to back up their own computers.

Even if you have a data protection plan in place, recovering in the event of a hard drive failure can still be a process that eats into valuable work time, and your user has still lost everything done since the last backup.  No matter how fast and easy restoring from a backup device might be, you still need a sound hard drive to put the data onto, and acquiring and installing one takes time that might be critical in the midst of an important, time-sensitive project.

Data mirroring can be an invaluable time saver in situations like these. If you have a desktop containing two identically sized hard drives set up with data mirroring, everything in one hard drive is fully and completely copied onto the other, and if one drive fails the other seamlessly moves in to take its place. You or your employee can continue working without interruption until the faulty drive can be replaced.

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a technology that’s been around in the enterprise server world for years. RAID combines multiple hard drives into a single, logical unit using identically sized disks, improving fault tolerance with seamless switching in the event of a failure. The technology centers around data mirroring as described above – everything is copied fully on each separate disk. All this happens automatically – the user does nothing to make it happen.

RAID 1 is the data mirroring HP uses in select desktop PC solutions, and it requires two hard drives of the same size and specifications to mirror data precisely.  HP helps with the configuration, so all you have to do is turn on the PC when it arrives.

HP’s Real Time Data Backup RAID 1 Solution is a pre-installed option available on the HP Compaq dc5750 Business Desktop PC and HP Compaq dc7700 Business Desktop PC. Ordering a PC with RAID 1 and an extra hard drive might seem like a luxury, but the cost differential will seem meaningless the first time data mirroring saves a project in the nick of time, and when you add the second hard drive at purchase HP configures everything at no charge.

Later on, if you have a hard drive failure you can replace the failed hard drive with an identical one and mirroring begins again with no extra configuration required. If you’re running HP Client Manager, the user and/or the IT Administrator will be notified automatically of the failure. It’s that simple with HP Business PCs. 

HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs are smart, manageable business PCs with  great depth and breadth of security features, capable of supporting a broad range of business requirements and designed to increase business productivity. They provide a set of powerful advantages for organizations of all sizes who value:

• Business PCs designed for the lowest cost of ownership
• Long-term hardware and image consistency
• Easy remote network manageability and preinstalled agents
• Common software image across chassis by chipset
• Highly serviceable and expandable chassis

HP Compaq Business Desktop PCs provide a stable, long-lived solution for your business computing environment.

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