PC Preventative Maintenance
Why do I need Preventative Maintenance?
Preventive Maintenance Helps Safeguard Data
- For most small business clients, the information on the hard disk(s) is infinitely more important than the hardware that houses the data.
- Taking steps to protect this information therefore makes sense, and that is what PM is all about.
Preventive Maintenance Improves Performance
- Some parts of systems will actually degrade in performance over time.
- Preventive maintenance helps to improve the speed of overall system and network performance in these respects.
Preventive Maintenance Saves Money
- We’ve all heard the old adage “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. It’s trite, but it is also true.
- Avoiding problems saves clients money in the long run, compared with laying out cash for new components or repair jobs.
- Most preventive maintenance procedures are quite simple, compared to troubleshooting and repair procedures.
- Emergency repair procedures can consume clients’ IT budgets at alarming rates.
What's involved with Preventative Maintenance?
Firstly, we safeguard your company's data by:
- Keeping your systems virus, spyware and adware-free
- Creating backups of all your important data and programs
- Updating your systems to safegaurd against newly-discovered software vulnerabilities
Secondly, we improve perfomance by:
- Defragmenting disk drives
- Ensuring no unecessary programs run
- Keeping components free from dust and dirt
- Ensuring machines are running with suitable resources available for the tasks in hand
By safeguarding your systems and keeping those systems running at their optimum performance levels, preventive maintenance will save money by:
- Avoiding costly downtime
- Avoiding costly “wait time” while the systems chug along at sluggish speeds
- Avoiding costly repairs
- Avoiding costly data retrieval
How much is all this going to cost me?
Small business with 1-3 PCs?
- Site visit every six months for system maintenance
- Annual IT review with comprehensive report
- Virus update subscription — included!
- Consumables supplied & fitted at reduced prices (including inkjet cartridges, toner refills, fan replacement)
- Engineer labour supplied @£17.50/hr for non-preventative maintenance work
- No callout charges for site six monthly visits
- Advisory service — relevant advice on all IT matters when you need it
£25/month
Small business with 4-10 PCs?
- Site visit every 3 months for system maintenance
- Annual IT review with comprehensive report
- Virus updates subscription — included!
- Consumables supplied & fitted at reduced prices (including inkjet cartridges, toner refills, fan replacement)
- Engineer labour supplied @£17.50/hr for non-preventative maintenance work
- No callout charges for site quarterly visits
- Advisory service — relevant advice on all IT matters when you need it
£65/month
More than 10 PCs?