Billed as “delivering the best file sharing experience ever,” the Drobo FS network attached storage (NAS) box lets you slide in as many as five hard drive, so you just add more storage as your needs grow.
Sounds great? Well it is. Sorta.
LaCie have come up with a neat storage and back up solution in the shape of their dual back-up system, known as the LaCie CloudBox.
When we found ourselves needing some extra HD space for back-up, we quickly bored ourselves silly looking at the dull choices on offer, so we decided to pay a few quid over the baseline offerings and bag ourselves the stylish LaCie 2TB Hard Disk.
According to new research, a third of Brits have lost precious digital photos forever due to computer failures.
The research was commissioned by an online backup service called Mozy who were, unsurprisingly, rather keen to warn consumers about the perils of not fully backing up their content.
We can’t actually remember the last time we used a floppy disk, and for most users these little squares of plastic are but a distant memory, but it turns out Sony hasn’t stopped making and selling them. Yet.
Sony created the world’s first 3.5-inch floppy disc back in 1981 and for decades, PCs creaked and made strange noises as computers battled to access the 720K (double-density) or 1.44MB (high-density) data onboard.
With an almost-new hard drive catastrophically failing in our office only last week, we’ve never been so aware of the fragility of our precious data – and the need to back it up thoroughly.
We like to go for the belt’n'braces approach, backing up our data both locally and online, but with so many choices available, UK tech site TechRadar have usefully posted up a review of “six reliable online backup services for your Mac.”
Before you Windows users retire from this article at speed – hold your horses! – all of the six back up services reviewed also work on PCs.
You would have thought that the prospects of getting any usable data from a hard disk that has spent six months on the seabed would be precisely zero, but a data recovery firm claims to have recovered a load of data from an ocean-soaked drive.
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