http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2079451,00.asp
Toshiba Ships New Portable HDDs with Automated Backup
By Chris Preimesberger
January 5, 2007
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Mobile storage provider Toshiba Storage Device Division launched Jan. 4 a new line of 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drives in 100GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities with automated backup capability.
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At 5.6 inches long by 3.5 inches wide and less than 1 inch tall, the portable drive doesn’t take much space on a desktop.
Availability and pricing
The Toshiba USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive will be on retail store shelves in spring 2007 starting at $139.99.
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So, I would look for everyone to be dumping big external hard drives with no backup software. That translates to me to bargains. Big time. There will be no excuse for data loss when your platform spin, crashes, and burns into the deck. (Hey, I watched Top Gun recently!)
One has to question recovery solutions that are not built around cheap disks.
One caveat: I don’t keep my spare backup usb drives plug in and powered up to the systems to be recovered. The same power fluctuation that fires your desktop can fry it’s back up. That “virus” you got from downloading the latest hot game could do the same. And, let us not forget the biggest data losing virus know to man … the user or the administrator. You can have a brain freeze and toast your own marshmallows. It’s a little harder when the backup drive is some distance away, offline, locked up. Give yourself a chance at a brain thaw before you shoot yourself in the foot.
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