NEWS

Cloud Storage Solutions, Security Now (4/19 & 4/25/12)
My favorite podcast (episodes #349 & #350) discusses popular online storage services, their security, and their price.

 

Five Best Online File Storage Services (11/23/11)
There are a number of online file storage and syncing servise that will make you data available on multiple computers.

 

How to Fix (or Kill) Web Data About You (4/13/11)
As more of our lives take place online, we leave behind a growing supply of personal information.

 

Storing Your Files Inside the Cloud (3/2/11)
A growing number of companies offer cloud-based backup services.

 

As Computer Capacity Soars, Users Drown in Data (2/11/11)
The fraction of data stored digitally has skyrocketed from 1% in 1986 to 94% in 2007.

 

Taking Care of your Personal Archives (11/11/10)
Smithsonian Institution Archives experts answered your questions about your own personal archives.

 

Moving Taped Past to Hard-Drive Future (4/14/10)
It started with a call from Steve Jobs - David Pogue writes about
the pain and inconvenience of changing storage formats.

 

The Future of Memory (3/18/10)
Gizmodo, the technology blog, has a fascinating series about memory, titled MEMORY FOREVER. .

 

Protecting Data, Ahead of the Curve (1/13/10)
Network-attached storage, or NAS, may be one of the
best-kept secrets in personal technology.

 

Choosing Hardware and Image Storage - The DAM Book
This excerpt is a chapter from Peter Krogh's book, a guide for managing
your digital images (and other digital assets) efficiently and effectively.

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Portable Hard Drives: A Terabyte in Your Pocket (12/29/09)
The latest portable hard drives have astonishing capacity--and some new features. Here’s what to look for in a miniature storage device.

 

Solid-State Drives Go Mainstream (8/28/09)
Higher capacities, faster performance, and lower prices are
helping solid-state drives become viable for everyday use.

 

7 Backup Strategies for Your Data, Multimedia, and System Files (8/25/09)

Here are the most efficient methods of protecting your stuff,
no matter what your situation

 

1TB SSD Drive Coming Soon, for a Price (8/04/09)

Memory maker OCZ has confirmed it will launch a new 1TB Solid State Drive

 

You Know About Backups. Now, Do It Online. (10/23/08)

Online backup services are proliferating as users are discovering
that it can cost less than a fancy cup of coffee

 

Home servers will render CD racks obsolete (7/20/08)

A home server acts as a central storage hub for all the content in the home,
and multiple devices can link to it in order to stream or otherwise
access music, video or other content.

 

Memories are made of bits  (7/24/08)

A look at the latest options to convert analogue personal content
into digital formats that can be easily accessed, stored and
backed up for safe keeping.

 

The Best Backup Tools (7/1/08)

It's like exercising. Or flossing. You know you should do it, but you put
it off. Yes, I'm talking about backing up your important documents.

 

Home Networking 101  (5/6/08)
Building a new home network? It doesn't have to be tough,
if you follow our five easy steps.

 

The Best Online Backup Services  (4/29/08)
If you want near-real time off-site backup, an online
backup service is the way to go.

Determine Your Backup Process (2/8/08)
There are nearly as many ways to back up your business data as there are ways to lose the data and require that backup.

Amazon's MP3 Service a Hit (11/14/07)
I really didn't want to be a criminal, but it was late and I was prepared to risk the wrath of the RIAA for my wife.You see, she needed an unfettered copy of "The Way We Were" in the worst way, and Barbra Streisand just wasn't giving it up.

Online data backup can save music, photos from disaster (10/31/07)
Tech-savvy consumers are looking to online backup services for peace
of mind. For years, these services were either unreliable, hard to use
or very expensive — but that's changed.

Best storage strategies for the multimedia PC (8/26/07)
The way we consume media has created a huge dilemma of how we store all that stuff efficiently AND reliably. If you buy the right gear and you know RAID technology, you won’t need to spend a lot of money and will still get the best solution.

On a Home Network, the Right Drive Means Storage for All (8/2/07)
It is easy to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data. A few
hundred songs, a couple of vacations’ worth of photos, a dozen movies
and television programs — and suddenly the 80 gigabyte hard drive
in the notebook computer is straining.

Will We Run Out of Storage? (7/28/07)
Is a capacity shortage looming in the near future for enterprise assets?

Buyers' Guide: External Hard Drives (5/16/07)
An external hard drive is the closest thing we have today to a digital attic.

Don’t Keep All Your Data in One Stash (9/7/06)
What if something happens to both your PC and your backup?

Big, Safe Data Storage (6/27/06)
If you have a big selection of MP3 files, shoot digital photos, edit your own videos, or are responsible for a small business, you need to know what a Network Attached Storage device (NAS) is.

SanDisk - Picture of success (3/13/06)
CEO Eli Harari invented the use of memory chips
to store digital photos on tiny, removable cards.

The Wired Home (3/12/06)
Networking gear and other technology devices are
making it easier for homeowners to control household
electronics with the touch of a button

Keeping Our Bits About Us (2/27/06)
When it comes to preserving your digital heritage,
backup is only the beginning.