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YouTubeOne thing that I’m really looking forward to when I’m in Ottawa this July is buying a Drobo available at Carbon Computing There are only a few retail locations available and one of them is in Ottawa which is really convenient for me since they aren’t available in Korea yet.
What’s a Drobo you ask? It’s the ultimate backup system – it’s better than RAID and is simple to use. I’ve heard a lot about Drobo over the past 18 months or so and about a year ago decided I wanted one, however I didn’t have the spare money until recently (they are expensive) and I also didn’t want to ship it overseas.
Why do I need this? Well I’ve got around 12,000+ photos, several years worth of home video and all of my business information on my desktop with no auto back up option. I do manually back up once in a while, but not as often as I should. With a Drobo it’s all 100% done with reduntancy, you can even flip a switch for dual redundancy if you want. In any case, having that will make me feel better about having all my data secure.
Of course if I wanted to be really secure I would also set up an off-site backup system, but that’s a project for another day.
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Kevin Robinson: Thursday Jun 10, 2010 at 08:12 AM
If you want some automatic backup for your internal stuff, you could try Carbonite online backup. I signed up and have backed up all my photos, docs, and am half-way through the videos, up to 110GBs already. It’s automatic, and just $55 per year with some months free with the coupon code ‘twit’