Tag archives for Data Storage

Silicon Forensics Hard Drive Shipping Case

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…

Backups, Backups, Backups

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

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…

The M-Arc DVD System

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…

Star Wars Flash Drives

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…