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My What a Big Hard Drive You Have!

HAL & Portable Backup DriveOne of the little side benefits of all the Black Friday & Cyber Monday craziness is that the promotional pricing can be used to address some very real needs around the home office. This is just one fine example that crossed my desk today; high-capacity, portable USB 3.0 hard drives are being offered on-the-cheap. I saw a Seagate Expansion 3 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive offered for $99.

It’s been a while since I bought any storage, but I am reminded that my NAS isn’t backed up in any real way. HAL, a five disk LaCie 5Big NAS , has 10 TB of raw storage, but is presently configured for 4 TB of RAID 10 + hot spare.

It would certainly be nice to be able to back it up to an offline volume. Given that the 4 TB volume is not completely stuffed, a 3 TB drive could still do the job.

Are your important files backed up?

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  1. I’m waiting for black friday to choose my backup solution 🙂 crashplan and skydrive are the main contenders. let’s see their offers 🙂

    1. I use Dropbox to sync/backup a lot of my desktop and laptop PCs. However, for the NAS I need something MUCH bigger.

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