Backups are Big Business
According to Investors Business Daily, storage has become a $50 billion market, rife with competition.
Storage is a growth sector because data is a growth sector. "The world produces 250 megabytes of unique information per year for every man, woman and child on earth," writes IBD's Brian Deagon, citing a study by UC Berkeley. (What I want to know is how they figured that out.) Remember to protect your unique information by backing it up regularly—and maybe you should buy a few shares of Seagate while you're at it.
Storage is a growth sector because data is a growth sector. "The world produces 250 megabytes of unique information per year for every man, woman and child on earth," writes IBD's Brian Deagon, citing a study by UC Berkeley. (What I want to know is how they figured that out.) Remember to protect your unique information by backing it up regularly—and maybe you should buy a few shares of Seagate while you're at it.
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Thanks to your friendly reminders about backing up, and a gnawing feeling of paranoia, a went out to Frye's and bought an external hard drive to back the whole system up!
True to form, I just got an impulse and went shopping without doing any product research beforehand. I got lucky. I bought a Maxtor OneTouch.
It was tricky getting it installed, (one Sunday afternoon shot to hell and an hour on the phone with a couple of great tech guys at the company) but now it is cracking. I backed up everything, operating systems and all my data, in a couple of hours. I am scheduling this every Sunday at 1 a.m.
Turns out, that apart from some software/network conflicts during the installation process, I bought one of the finest systems around.
It is amazing what you can get for $229...seriously, it is worth it to not have to worry about losing my business files and my income from my internet business.
Thanks, Ms. FileSlinger, for the heads up!
Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D.
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Note everyone that "One Touch" really means "a whole day to set it up, after which you can back up at the press of a button."
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