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 [...]
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4 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 »If the number of new product releases is a sign of market potential, then the digital media player market is primed to explode. It’s actually becoming difficult to keep track of all the new product releases and their differentiating features, especially since most of the players offer little more than minor variations to the “digital [...]
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 [...]
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