Wednesday, September 08, 2004

PC Magazine Feature: External Storage: Little Big Drives

PC Magazine Feature: External Storage: Little Big Drives:
"Backup has gotten personal: Small drives that match your lifestyle have changed the face of storage and backup. Add-in drives are out of the question now that notebooks are steadily replacing desktops. Fast interfaces such as USB 2.0 and FireWire have made plug-and-play external drives practical, and skyrocketing capacity and plummeting costs have made them affordable.

The files you're storing have changed, too. You're more likely to need room for your digital photos, gigabytes of music, Web site backup, or video-editing projects. IDE drives have become orders of magnitude more reliable in recent years, so the emphasis in backup has moved from generational data sets and disaster recovery to a clean working copy of your hard drive."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1639442,00.asp

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