Amazing Black Friday Deals at Schrock Innovations!
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- Written on: November 23rd, 2011
Schrock Innovations has some mind-blowing deals this Friday in all three Service Centers and the best part is you can sleep in and still get in on the action! On Black Friday (November 25th) Schrock will be open at 10:00 – normal business hours – which emans you can sleep off that Thanksgiving Turkey while […]
Thor Schrock Featured in Sunday Omaha World Herald Money Section
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- Written on: November 22nd, 2011
I was featured in an article in last Sunday’s Omaha World Herald about how the massive flooding in Thailand is impacting the local market for computers and computer repair. The long and the short of the situation is that the prices of wholesale hard drives have tripled in the past three weeks. The increased prices […]
How Schrock Innovations’ Safe & Stored System Protects Your Data
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- Written on: November 2nd, 2011
Anyone who has experienced data loss knows that awful feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when you realize your important information is gone forever.
People invest hundreds of dollars in backup hard drives, online backup services and DVD-R disks to try to prevent the loss of irreplaceable information. Despite everyone’s best efforts data loss still strikes because backup schedules are only as good as the people who run them – or forget to run them.
Introducing the Safe & Stored Backup System from Schrock Innovations
For the first time ever you do not need to back up your computer to an external hard drive or DVDs because your backup drive is built right into your computer.
The Safe and Stored Backup System backs up your computer’s main hard drive to a secondary hard drive right inside your computer.
There are no drives to hook up, no disks to maintain and no schedules to set.
How Does Safe and Stored Work?
Once every week (or more often if you would like) the Safe and Stored Backup System takes a complete image of your hard drive including your programs and Operating System files.
If your hard drive ever crashes, a mirror-image of your data can be restored to a new drive. All of your programs, settings, files, and devices will automatically work just like they used to.
How Does Safe and Stored Compare to Online Backup?
Online Backup with services like Mozy or Carbonite are great if you need an offsite backup of your data files.
However, many people don’t realize that these online services don’t backup video files or files over 2 GB in size unless you specifically include each file individually in your backup. Also, in the event of a drive failure it can take over three days to download your recovered files!
The Secure Updater is a complete backup of your entire drive. Because it is stored right inside your computer it is faster to restore you have complete control over your data at all times.
Call Schrock Innovations or stop in to see the Safe and Stored Backup System in action today!
Hard Drives Going into Extreme Shortage – Wholesale Prices Double in 3 Days
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- Written on: November 1st, 2011
Just in time for the holiday season the recent Thailand monsoon is threatening the stability of notebook and laptop prices.
Some parts of Thailand received as much as 140% of their seasonal Monsoon rainfall in a matter of hours. 40% of the world’s hard drives are produced in Thailand, and the massive flooding conditions are making this spring’s Missouri river flooding look like a kiddie pool. Think Katrina only across an entire country.
Extreme Shortages Coming
Analysts expect hard drives to go into extreme shortage almost immediately. Western Digital will bear the brunt of the blow. Company executives are reporting they expect a 60% decline in their sales due to producti0n shortages. All of their Thailand factories were flooded.
Seagate’s factories were spared, but their component supplies were not.
Online retailer Tiger Direct currently has no hard drives at all available for order at any price. Their competitor, Newegg has remaining inventory thanks in large part to establishing strict quantity limitations of one drive per customer per 48 hour period.
Computer Makers to Run Out of Drives by end of November
Even PC maker Asusteq is reporting that it will run out of desktop and laptop hard drives entirely by the end of November.
This situation is posing a unique challenge for OEM computer makers, including Schrock Innovations.
In fact, Schrock Innovations is incurring strict quantity limitations and lack of availability on many hard drives used in our Modular computers.
In response we have been buying every hard drive we can get our hands on as news pours in that shortages will be with us through at least March of 2012 and as long as December of 2012.
