It’s always exciting for us to see new data backup solutions that could genuinely help the average person preserve and protect their valuable data. We’ve written about the importance of regular backups to USB devices such as Western Digital’s MyBook Elite and the benefits of moving beyond single drive devices to RAID capable network attached [...]
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CTERA CloudPlug NAS with Online Backup
October 22nd, 2009
Posted in Cloud Computing, Emerging Technology, NAS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Technology, Wired 
Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, CloudPlug, hard drive, NAS, network, QNAP, RAID, storage 
3 Comments »Western Digital My Book External HDD’s Get A Spine
October 6th, 2009
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 »Network Attached Storage for your home…
October 5th, 2009
Someday I’m going to create a time based plot of the average amount of data I accumulate requiring permanent storage. Like most people whose lives are becoming increasingly digital, the graph will undoubtedly highlight an upward trend. Since most of this data is irreplaceable pictures, movies, and documents, it’s important to regularly back it up and understand what products [...]
Posted in NAS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Wired Tags: backup, hard drive, NAS, network, QNAP, storage 3 Comments »100GB Blu-ray may be on its way
September 12th, 2009
Hey! I say today that Blu-ray may be 100GB, OK? While I clearly have no business attempting tech-poetry, my interest was piqued when I learned that Sharp has developed a laser that, when used in conjunction with theoretical triple and quad-layer Blu-ray disks, could increase the storage capacity of that medium up to 100GB.
Existing Blu-ray [...]
LG and WD introduce consumer directed storage solutions
September 10th, 2009
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 LG [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, NAS, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, LG, NAS, networking, storage, USB, WD 1 Comment »Dangerous Precident Being Set
August 20th, 2009
I’m going to try and prevent this from turning into a rant, but I want to point out a dangerous trend to which nobody is paying much attention. I was reading about recent additions to Canon’s line of Vixia camcorders, and noticed that there seems to be a feature war between the various video camera [...]
Posted in Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Flash Memory, Hard Drives, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Video Tags: backup, Camcorder, flash, HD, media, memory, storage 3 Comments »Now Supported: 2.5” SATA hard drives in QNAP NAS Servers
August 12th, 2009
As our lives become increasingly entrenched in a digital world, the need for reliable, robust, and easily archivable data storage will surely rise. Whether it be for home use storing digital family photos and movies, or in a small business environment as a server of shared files, the advantages of multi-drive networked storage devices become [...]
Posted in Hard Drives, NAS, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Storage, Wired Tags: backup, hard drive, NAS, network, QNAP, RAID, storage No Comments »
