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Power Play

Where Did You Save That? There are two places you can put your data: on your own hard drive, or on the network server. There are several advantages to parking your files on a server. The server is a central storage container. Everything that belongs to a company should be saved to the server so that all of the staff can get to it. A good server is also fault tolerant with two or more mirrored hard drives so that there is no single point of failure. Desktop PCs have only one drive as a rule. When that hard drive fails it takes everything with it: all of your files, your applications, and your favorites. Gone! Saving to a server is simple with a mapped drive. In the Windows Explorer it looks like a gray hard drive with a couple of network cables stuck into it. As far as your computer knows or cares, saving to a hard drive down the hall on the server is the same as saving to your local hard drive. The next time you go to File -> Save, think about where you are putting the data. It does matter.