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Add a robot to your data backup plan

On a scale from 1to10, the Drobo FS is a freakin’ 10.
You may have noticed (or probably not) that I have an obsession with data, with data backup, and with storage.  We ran an entire month of posts all focused on data backup.  Anyone who’s lost data before tends to have this kind of an [...]

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HG Wells, eat your heart out (or, my time machine is bigger than your time machine)

On a scale from 1 to 10, Time Machine can really save your bacon.
Mac has a very cool program that fits seamlessly into September’s theme on data backup and protection. Not September anymore you say? Well, things have been busy. Nevertheless, for those who haven’t heard of it (both [...]

Redundancy = peace of mind, especially for data

On a scale from 1to10, I’m a strong believer in redundancy.
It keeps you alive when you’re setting rock climbing anchors, and it’s extremely valuable when it comes to digitally stored data. I have 2 hard drives inside my PC. The two are mirrored (RAID 1 – see the Wikipedia link above).  Briefly, what this means [...]

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Drive to the Drive-Through? I’ll take an External HDD and my XBOX 360, thanks all the same

It’s September, and that’s storage month on 1to10.  This post is about using storage to serve both your backup and media needs.  How do you watch movies and TV shows?  Broadcast television?  Cable television?  Over-the-top (OTT) services like VUDU, Netflix, or Amazon Unbox?  Yeah, me too.  But on a scale from 1to10, my favorite thing [...]

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