Here’s video of an interesting experiment by Mozy, the online data backup provider. In an effort to impress the importance of data backup in today’s world, the company offers random passers-by a free laptop if they’re willing to destroy theirs immediately and completely. The number of individuals who decline the offer effectively demonstrates that many [...]
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Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, Mozy, network attached storage 
No Comments »We’ve been huge proponents of both long term and redundant data backup solutions, but nothing to the extent being considered by the European Space Agency. At a conference last month, Europe’s version of NASA considered creating a “Doomsday Ark” on the Moon as a hedge against some cataclysmic eventuality like nuclear war or other extinction [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Science, Space, Storage, Technology Tags: Databank, Doomsday Ark, ESA, Moon, NASA, RAID, space, storage 1 Comment »Blu-ray discs exceeding 100GB of capacity should be available shortly, now that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized and released its BDXL specification. In an announcement today, the association said the following: “…manufacturers can now obtain licensing information and license applications needed to begin production of the high capacity write-once and rewritable discs and hardware [...]
Posted in Optical Storage, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: BDXL, Blu-ray, blu-ray disc association No Comments »We’ve stressed the importance of good data backup systems ad-nauseam on TechClicker. The amount of data being accumulated by the average person is staggering, and much of this data is invaluable. While several good, redundant in-home backup solutions exist, such as network attached storage devices, these don’t replace the need for good off-site storage as [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, Mozy, network attached storage, storage 2 Comments »The amount of digital data I generate requiring permanent, secure, and redundant storage is overwhelming. From digital photos and movies from both standard and high definition sources to digitized music, software, and documents, organizing and indexing this mess of information is daunting to say the least. And realizing that this data accumulation phase [...]
Posted in Cloud Computing, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Technology Tags: backup, Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, data security, storage 5 Comments »Got a burgeoning Blu-ray collection but no way to backup all those discs? Since Blu-ray burners and media are still relatively expensive, direct-copy methods don’t make a lot of financial sense. Fortunately there’s the free x264 software library which now can compile Blu-ray compatible h.264 encoded content to subsequently be recorded on standard single and [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Home Theater, Optical Storage, PCs and Laptops, Storage, TV and Video Tags: Blu-ray, dvd, h.264, x264 No Comments »Remember when we posed the question as to “whether we’ll ever actually see 100GB Blu-ray disks?” Despite the technological feasibility and advances by companies such as Sharp, we debated whether the market forces that drive advances in data storage and archiving would lead to a consumer writable Blu-Ray disk of greater than 100GB capacity. Given [...]
