Portable Storage Guide 184
Elite 4CE writes "If you're like me, you are always transporting data from home to work, and back. I was surprized at how many options there were to facilitate this.
Hardcoreware.net have posted their Portable Storage Guide for 2005, covering everything from flash based devices that fit into your pocket, to huge FireWire drives with a capacity of 400GB."
Beware Large Externals (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Beware Large Externals (Score:3, Informative)
Security Risks? (Score:5, Informative)
PQI (Score:3, Informative)
Coralized (Score:4, Informative)
JOhn
Re:Beware Large Externals (Score:5, Informative)
Kids these days don't know nothing...
Re:Data encryption on portable device? (Score:3, Informative)
I've got a review of it here [nedwolf.com], if you're interested, as well as some other portable security tools. I've a bigger list [nedwolf.com] portable software tools as well. (shameless link, but on topic)
Software for your portable deviced (Score:4, Informative)
Apparently Windows Only (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Beware Large Externals (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Ask Slashdot: Redundant external storage (Score:2, Informative)
Plus, in my experience, RAID doesn't work very well, because data gets corrupted, the controller fails, your PSU fries and all the disks go... Don't trust raid.
So:
- for backups, have en extra USB or FW disk 3"1/2, that you connect from time to time to do backups of everything (hopefully several if you have enough room on it, that depends on which files you work on, count $150 for 200gigs+enclosure).
Also burn a weekly DVD with your most important files (mail, photos, work documents, anything you CANNOT replace, NOT your porn+MP3 stash), and spread them around offsite (family, friends...). Maybe your ISP gives you some space for personal pages, which you can use for a second backup instead.
- for mobility, use email, FTP, USB sticks, a 2"1/2 external PSU-less HD, whichever suit your needs / capacity requirements.
There are quite a few solutions for quickly synching 2 drives, I use xxcopy (www.xxcopy.com) because I'm old school, MS has a new Synctool that I haven't tested, there are a lot more, those are free. Linux has a nifty rsynch command, but I don't know Linux.
And then you need the discipline to actually DO those backups
Re:Beware Large Externals (Score:4, Informative)