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There's No Good Time for Data to Disappear on You


The Bucket List

"Somewhere, some lucky guy's having a heart attack." – Edward Cole, The Bucket List (2007)

Say storage and people immediately think of a hard or flash drive…tape…optical media. In other words, bit buckets to hold your digital stuff. Until that inevitable fateful day. Like ours…

First, the 2TB drive on your office server won't boot up. It's dead. Ten skilled people sit on their hands, wondering how they're going to meet their deadlines. Then your daughter's notebook hard drive dies with all of her music, photos, videos, school work and whatever. This IS a real crisis!Read more

Ten Must-Pack Home Office RV Tools and Accessories


Must-Pack Home Office Tools

By Jeff Zbar
www.homeofficehighway.com

To paraphrase the once-almost-ubiquitous line from a popular credit-card commercial, 'What's in your backpack'?'

Whether a family cruise or a two-week road trip, I make sure to pack my backpack with all the essentials needed to create a home office from the road. And with every trip, I find something new to stash in my travel case. I'm sure road warriors and teleworkers go through the same exercise.Read more

Pioneer's Ultra-Portable DVD/CD Writer for Netbook/Notebook Owners

by Justin Hubbell on Fri, 2009-07-31 14:22


Pioneer DVR-XD09

The Pioneer DVR-XD09 features the industry's most compact DVD/CD write design to date. The new DVR-XD09 weighs approximately 8 ounces and has an overall size that is slightly larger than a music CD case. Simply connecting the DVR-XD09 to a PC through the USB 2.0 port allows users to easily transport, connect and back up valuable data files in virtually any location setting as well as across multiple computers.

Additionally, owners can archive significant amounts of critical data with the drive's dual layer DVD-R write support that upgrades the storage capacity of a single layer disc from 4.7GB to 8.5GB.

The new DVD/CD computer writer begins shipping in August for a suggested retail price of $79.99. Read more

Hitachi's 2 New Portable HDDs and a New NAS Adapter

by Justin Hubbell on Wed, 2009-07-29 13:09


Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB drive

The first portable HDD is the water-resistant and shock-proof SimpleTOUGH portable USB drive. It will be available in 250, 320, 500GB at $99.99, $119.99, $149.99 respectively. The SimpleTOUGH can survive a 3-meter fall and it features a twistable USB cable that's permanently affixed to the enclosure.

The other HDD is the stylish and colorful SimpleDRIVE Mini that is now shipping in red wine (250GB-$89.99), blue dusk (320GB-$109.99) and carbon fiber black (500GB-$139.99).

The USB/NAS adapter, SimpleNET, will allow up to two USB HDDs to be placed on a network. This is purely a convenience product, not a performance one, as it is only equipped with a 10/100 Ethernet jack. You can pick up the SimpleNET NAS adapter for a MSRP of $79.99.Read more

WD Announces New 1TB My Passport Essential Portable Drive

by Justin Hubbell on Wed, 2009-07-29 00:30


WD My Passport Essential SE

The new 1 TB and 750 GB capacity My Passport Essential SE drives are light and compact to carry and, because they are USB-powered, they do not need an external power adapter. Equipped with sync and encryption software (Windows-compatible only), this small drive, with mega-capacity, makes it easy to securely carry thousands of songs, videos or photos.

WD Sync software allows consumers to easily take desktop content with them by simplifying the synchronization of essential personal files and Microsoft Outlook data on a PC.

WD's My Passport Essential SE portable drives are available now in the U.S. at select retail stores and from WD's online store. MSRP for the My Passport Essential SE 1 TB portable drive is $299.99 and for the 750 GB model is $199.99.

WD Ships World's First 1 TB Mobile Hard Drive

by Justin Hubbell on Mon, 2009-07-27 11:15


WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard drive

WD announced today, two new mobile hard drives with extreme capacities. The highlight is a one terabyte model -- the industry's highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive. It features a 333 GB-per-platter technology that enables the new WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard drives to offer mobile storage device and notebook users an enormous 1 TB capacity. A 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue model will also be available.

The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB hard drives have a 12.5 mm form factor and are ideally suited for use in portable storage solutions, such as the newly released My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives. Both WD Scorpio Blue drives deliver high-performance with 3 gigabits per second transfer rate.

The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB are available now for $189.99 and $249.99 respectively.

WD Puts One Terabyte in the Palm of Your Hand

July 27, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WD today introduced its new one terabyte (TB) and 750 gigabyte (GB) capacity My Passport Essential SE Portable USB Drives. Available now at WD's online store (www.shopwd.com), the new drives feature a titanium silver finish and put massive storage capacity in the palm of your hand.

Perfect for saving, storing and backing up all of the digital memories captured this summer, the new 1 TB and 750 GB capacity My Passport Essential SE drives are light and compact to carry and, because they are USB-powered, they do not need an external power adapter. Equipped with sync and encryption software (Windows-compatible only), this small drive, with mega-capacity, makes it easy to securely carry thousands of songs or videos or photos.

WD Sync software allows consumers to easily take desktop content with them by simplifying the synchronization of essential personal files and Microsoft Outlook data on a PC. Should owners misplace the drive, they know their data is protected with 128-bit encryption.Read more

The Most Compact, Energy Saving 4-Bay NAS on the Market

by Justin Hubbell on Mon, 2009-07-27 00:30


Synology DS409slim

Synology has just announced its new 2.5-inch 4-bay Disk Station DS409slim. It brings lower power consumption, virtually quiet operations and an extremely small footprint both physically and financially. The 2.5-inch hard drives increase shock tolerance and reduce power consumption, while the DS409slim only consumes 19 watts of power when running 4 2.5-inch HDDS under normal operations.

Specs:

  • 4 hot-swappable hard drives
  • A 1.2 GHz CPU
  • 128MB DDRII RAM
  • One Gigabit LAN port
  • Two USB2.0 ports
  • One eSATA port

The DS409slim supports up to 2 TB with the combination of four 2.5" SATA or SSD hard drives of 500GB each. The physical footprint of the DS409slim remains stylish and compact with the total size being just larger than a 12 oz coffee cup (120 x 105 x 142 mm). The DS409slim is shipping in the U.S. right now.

Keeping the Mobile Office and Home Officer Online and Un-Harassed From the Road


Verizon MiFi in hand

By Jeff Zbar
www.homeofficehighway.com

More on the MiFi...

It's every home office, telework and road warrior's lament. At least those with kids (and a wife in search of 'net-time): How to get online, without attracting attention from the little scoundrels, who'll then want the Internet-connected laptop for their own.

Of course, RV parks across America promise "Free Wifi." Good luck finding a network that works...

Here's one review of the MiFi personal hotspot. Specifically, Daniel Terdiman said of mobile hot spot, it "converts the carrier's EV-DO signal into a Wi-Fi connection that up to five people can share. I had already used the MiFi to provide a signal for the iPod Touch at the very beginning of the trip so that, while sitting on a boarding airplane, I could download a large file from iTunes...Now, I realized that by turning the MiFi on and sticking it in my back pocket, I could become, in essence, a walking hot spot, allowing me to get online on the iPod Touch, no matter where I was. That meant that I could use the Skype app to make a phone call, run several other apps for one reason or another, and look up good places to eat using the device's browser..."

My two cents: This device has made working remotely seamless and breezy.Read more

Lexar Media Launches M225 SSDs

by Justin Hubbell on Thu, 2009-07-23 11:02


Crucial M225 SSD

The flagship 256GB Crucial M225 SSD screams at an impressive 250MB/sec read speed and a 200MB/sec write speed. The new Crucial SSDs enhance system performance by improving operating system boot and application load times. They also utilize a SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s) interface and feature MLC NAND flash components housed in an industry standard 2.5-inch drive enclosure, making a Crucial M225 SSD easy to install.

Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models, the trio is also fully compatible with the Crucial SK01 external drive storage kit. Basically, this is an enclosure for your SSD.

Crucial SSDs are available in 64GB (currently $169.99/£104.99/€120.99), 128GB (currently $329.99/£201.99/€143.99), and 256GB (currently $599.99/£367.99/€424.99) capacities online at www.crucial.com/ssd, www.crucial.com/uk/ssd, or www.crucial.com/eu/ssd, and through select channel partners.

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