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 [...]
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Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, hard drive, Memorex, Mirror for Photos, NAS, storage 
2 Comments »We’ve discussed the importance of data redundancy at length on TechClicker. As our lives and memories become increasingly digital, the importance of insuring their preservation is more important than ever. While computer errors and viruses make it easier than ever to annihilate entire collections of family photos, videos, important documents, or enterprise data, the technology [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: Cranberry DiamonDisc, DVD backup, hard drive, NAS, RAID, stone DVD, storage 2 Comments »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 [...]
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 4 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 »
