I really like Silicon Fornesics’ hard drive transporter for 3.5″ hard drives, but I’ve got 10-12 hard drives stuck in a locking drawer, and the bulk from 10 or 12 of the hard drive transporters would be a bit much. Enter Silicon Forensics’ Hard Drive Shipping Case: Holds 12 hard drives in a foam padded…
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I knew someone who several years ago wrote a book … on his laptop … for a year … and never backed it up or retained a print copy. You can probably guess what happened next. Almost as bad are these folks who relied on a cloud-based company to store backups of episodes of the…
FreeFileSync is a free and open source tool for syncing directories and files. I use it primarily to mirror my main personal data drive — which clocks in at about 3 million files in 1.1 terabytes – to a local backup. In the past, I’ve actually paid for commercial sync tools and this blows them…
Paul Querna wrote an interesting post back in June about “forever storage” — data storage that could potentially be stable for civilization-spanning eras of time, Not everyone will believe we can keep growing technology at the pace we have, nor that we might be able to stop death and diseases in our generation, but I do…
First heard about Millenniata’s M-Arc archival DVD system when the Long Now blog mentioned that the product was actually shipping. Millenniata claims its M-Arc DVDs are backwards-compatible with existing DVD technologies, but rather than using a laser to heat up a photosensitive dye, the M-Arc uses a mechanical process to make scratches in a physical…
Since there can never be enough Star Wars merchandise (apparently), Star Wars flash drives seemed the obvious way for Lucascorp to go. Along with Yoda, a Boba Fett, C-3PO, Darth Vader and others will be available in October 2009. Unfortunately there was a bug in the Han Solo version — it turned out you had…