There’s nothing worse than the feeling of losing your data forever. Cherished family photos, important documents, and valuable digital music collections are all susceptible to the failures of the media on which they’re stored. While devices and methods exist to significantly reduce the chance of a personal catastrophic data storage failure, most require more than an average [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Storage 
Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, hard drive, Memorex, Mirror for Photos, NAS, storage 
2 Comments »Despite the benefits of network attached storage with RAID and QNAP’s recent attempt to bring the technology to the home user, consumers generally still seem to prefer external USB hard drives for additional storage capacity and data backup, due mainly to the convenience, ease, and cost of these devices. For those employing multiple external hard [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: backup, hard drive, My Book, storage, USB, WD, Western Digital 2 Comments »Oh, how the USB standard has changed the world. Gone are the days of finicky 9-pin serial port connections requiring proprietary driver installations that never seemed to work correctly. Having thus far truly lived up to its name, the Universal Serial Bus standard has become as ubiquitous as the computer itself thanks to its ease of use, [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Peripherals, Storage, USB Tags: eSATA, Firewire, Freecom, hard drive, storage, USB 2 Comments »Having previously touched on the vast amounts of data the average consumer is generating these days thanks mostly to the wide variety of digital cameras, camcorders, iPods, and other personal media players available, I thought it might be interesting to look at a few consumer level backup storage devices released today. First up is the [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, NAS, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, LG, NAS, networking, storage, USB, WD 1 Comment »
