Consider these quick facts...

A hard drive crashes every 15 seconds.
2,000 laptops are stolen or lost every week.
1 in 5 computers suffer a fatal hard drive crash during their lifetime.
31% of PC users have lost all of their data files to events beyond their control.
32% of data loss is caused by human error.
25% of lost data is due to the failure of a portable drive.
60% of all business data is held on PC desktops and laptops.
Data loss will cost businesses an estimated $12 billion this year.
50% of businesses that lose their data never open their doors again.
Of those businesses that do manage to stay open, 90% end up failing
within two years.
The overall average failure rate of disk and tape drives is 100% - all drives eventually fail.