“I’ve owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there?” Mike Elgan asks. As prices have plummeted over the last few years, the USB hard drive market has exploded. More and more users… Continue reading Why Computerworld’s Mike Elgan Is Tossing His External Drives for the Cloud
Why 1 Billion PCs Are at Risk of Permanent Data Loss Without a Backup
According to Forrester Research there will be one billion PCs in use by the end of 2008. 50 billion photos snapped by consumers in 2007. You’d think if we cared enough about our travels, kids, and memories to take those photos, we’d care enough to make sure we didn’t lose them. But it seems we… Continue reading Why 1 Billion PCs Are at Risk of Permanent Data Loss Without a Backup