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Maxtor OneTouch III

An external drive, such as the Maxtor OneTouch III 500GB External Hard Drive, lets you back up your important data. Its 500GB of space will give you ample room to back up your entire system or just the pictures of your kids, financial data, and maybe even emails from friends that you’d hate to lose if your hard drive fails. You might consider getting an external DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, such as the Samsung SE-W184M, so you can back up your data to DVD and store the discs somewhere outside your home....

LACIE SAFE HARD DRIVE 500GB

Whether you have private personal information or business documents that you want to keep from prying eyes, the LaCie SAFE Hard Drive is a good choice. It can ably serve as a personal lockbox for your sensitive files or as a way to grant selected access to data on a shared computer. It can protect a lot of secrets with its 500GB capacity, though data transfer is limited to USB 1.1 and 2.0. The SAFE provides biometric security by means of a fi ngerprint reader. It can store fi ngerprin...

WESTERN DIGITAL MY BOOK PRO EDITION

Storage capacity, versatility and style define this spacious external hard drive. Its half-terabyte (500GB) capacity should allow more than enough room for most multimedia collections. Though it’s not the largest drive out there, the My Book’s combination of storage space, performance, connection methods, backup software, and sleek look. The My Book Pro’s metallic case is a good match for the MacBook Pro or the PowerBook G4, as well as aluminum cases on high-end Windows PC towers. A capacity ...

Partition Your Hard Drive

If you’re out of space on your system, it’s time to add a new hard drive to your PC or just reconfigure an old one. There’s no real need to set up even the largest drives into multiple partitions anymore, as the system BIOS can address all the storage in one partition. However, partitions can still make for good housekeeping, and you might consider creating a separate partition for any network shares you’d like to make, for storing drivers and software installation files that you plan to reuse a...

Hard-Drive Backups : Retrospect Express HD 2.0

With so many users backing up to hard drives, it’s a wonder EMC didn’t start selling its supereasy-to-use EMC Retrospect Express HD 2.0 backup program sooner. Previously available only when bundled with Maxtor’s OneTouch hard drives, Retrospect Express HD has been redesigned and released on its own. The shipping version of the $50 application and found it as simple and intuitive to use as its full-blown Retrospect Professional cousin is complex. Unlike the Professional version, Expres...

eSATA Backup Drive

Many of you are thinking about buying an external hard drive for backups. The most common type on the store shelves uses USB 2.0 to connect to your computer. You can buy one of these, connect it to nearly any computer, and get so-so speeds. A FireWire drive will give you roughly similar performance, but at a higher price and less compatibility. On the other hand, if your computer supports eSATA (external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), you can make your backups go a lot faster with a ...

Bigger and Faster Hard Drives

Since Seagate began shipping 750GB hard drives in April 2006, no manufacturer has released a drive that has hit the hallowed 1TB mark. However, Seagate has announced that it will begin shipping 1TB drives in the first half of this year, and the drives will use perpendicular technology, which is increasingly allowing hard drives to shatter previous capacity records. The company’s current 750GB drives also use perpendicular recording, which allows more data to be stored on disks tha...

IOMEGA REV LOADER 560

Tape has been giving way to the external hard drive as the preferred backup medium in small businesses. But if you need off-site copies of your data, hauling home a heavy, fragile hard drive seems less than ideal. Instead, to complement your external hard drives, consider the Iomega Rev Loader 560GB, a device that holds up to eight removable 70GB disks, each housed in a shock-resistant plastic case about the size of a 3.5-inch floppy disk. The REV 560 does cost far more than an extern...

copy2go External Drive

Backing up assorted collections of music, videos, photos, and documents can turn into a time-consuming project. Besides the effort you expend locating the files, extensive multimedia libraries require an external hard drive with a sizeable storage capacity. Designed for ease-of-use and available in 60GB or 100GB, CMS Products’ copy2go external drive features a built-in search and copy software that lets you manage all your multimedia files in one application. Once connected, the copy2go soft...

CMS Velocity Raid Backup System

Some people burn out hard drives faster than they run through shampoo. Video-editing pros (and buffs), heavy file downloaders, and people who build their own servers are especially vulnerable. The same users require blazing data-transfer speed. It’s crucial for them to have a fast, highcapacity, and fail-safe data backup system such as the CMS Velocity2 RAID Backup System. The Velocity2’s twin 500GB Western Digital 7,200-rpm SATA hard drives are user-replaceable with just a snap. The system h...