As I look into my crystal ball, I see many networked storage units coming our way. Part of the problem is that we have so much media that now needs some place to sit. So, instead of storing it on 3 computers in your house, consolidate it with a central media server. The next task [...]
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Thermaltake BlacX eSATA Hard Drive Dock
April 6th, 2009 
admin A hard drive dock makes storage easier. That because storage demands have gone sky high. And those demands are increasing with rapid fervor. Thermaltake (i love that name!) have a cheap SATA dock that may fit the bill.
Crashplan Offsite Backup
February 23rd, 2009 admin If there is one thing that I harp on about, it’s backing up data. Backups should be automated and it should be an offisite backup. Most people do backups locally to things like external drives. That’s not a bad step, but it’s not enough. What if your home or office is destroyed by fire or [...]
Western Digital My Book World Edition
February 19th, 2009 admin I guess the solar system edition is next. Western Digital tries to improve on their popular My Book external hard drive line. Did they do it?
Posted in Industry News, Storage 
Tags: external drive, mybook, mybook world edition, western digital 
No Comments »Transcend SSD18M Portable SSD Drives
February 3rd, 2009 admin It looks like this will be the year that SSD really comes into the mainstream. It’s been a long time coming. Transcend recently announced their SSD18M line of portable SSD drives. It’s enough to make your heart swoon.
Clickfree 160GB Automatic Backup Hard Drive
January 27th, 2009 admin One of the most important things you can do for yourself is to back up your data. I cannot stress that enough. The problem is that our lives have been increasingly digital in nature. We store pictures, videos, tax returns, etc. in digital format. That wasn’t the case just 5-10 years ago. What would happen [...]
Seagate Momentus 7200 FDE Encrypted Drive
November 12th, 2008 admin This is a timely post. I was just looking through a bunch of statistics about stolen laptops. Let’s just say that laptops are stolen a lot. The problem with that is that you may have important and sensitive data on the drive. Seagate wants to get rid of that problem for you. Introducing the Momentus [...]
Iomega Launches StorCenter ix2
October 20th, 2008 admin Iomega comes up with some handy storage products. I always liked their Rev drives for simple and expandable data storage. This time they are launching a storage box that looks a lot like a backup power supply.
Western Digital 4TB Network Storage System
October 1st, 2008 admin Yeah, take a good look at Western Digital’s new College Refrigerator ShareSpace network storage system. Western Digital is attempting to bring an easy to setup and maintain home or office backup/storage system to the masses. I have to admit, the Western Digital ShareSpace 4TB 4-Bay NAS Raidsounds interesting.
SuperTalent 128GB SSD Price Point Converging
October 1st, 2008 admin One of the biggest fault points in a computer is the hard drive. One of the slowest points in a computer is a hard drive. That’s because the hard drive is a physical device. It utilizes spinning platters that are slow and prone to failure. In laptops, hard drives suck because they are prone to [...]
