CES Trial By Fire: Hard Drive Demolition : Backing Up, Like Flossing

By Rachel Rosmarin , published on January 7, 2009 at 9:30 PM
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For businesses with "mission critical" data to preserve, backing up is crucial and makes sense. But for regular consumers, backing up is like flossing: you know you should do it, but how often do you forget? With the advent of cloud computing, the tedium of backing up (which, yes, can be automated with certain software bundles) has lost some of its stodgy feel. Companies like Iosafe might remind us that Web storage is equally falliable--Google's servers could burn down, I suppose--and then how do you recover your data from so far away? I say that any truly concerned consumer will do both: Invest in some form of failsafe hardware storage (Iosafe might be the best on the market today), and back up online.

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zodiacfml 01/08/2009 10:43 AM
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overkill. this thing won't prevent theft or drive failure. i'll stick with slow internet storage, most even are free.

theubersmurf 01/08/2009 4:11 PM
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Well, I bet the FBI would like broad adoption of these...

Anonymous 01/08/2009 6:26 PM
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Yea, but I still can't get my wife to back up her data....

lumpoco 05/29/2009 4:20 AM
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So this company makes the drives and protects them. Wow! I'd buy their products, but I'm not sure how reliable their drives are. I also think that eventually the protected drive would have been damaged as evidenced by the scorch marks surrounding the drive. Now if the drive were to withstand a thermonuclear explosion then I'm convinced. Although if that were to happen I probably won't be around to use my protected data. This product makes little sense for the average consumer. The high cost would deter the average consumer during these harsh economic times. The company has to provide another product or service to make this worthwhile. Otherwise, they are destined to fail.

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