Thursday, Sep. 02, 2010

External Storage

With so much digital property to lose — music, movies, photos — it's high time you protect your files with regular data backup on a portable hard drive. The My Passport Essential 640 GB portable drive holds up to 128,000 photos or 160,000 MP3 files — and its small size makes for easy travel. Hook the drive up to your computer via USB to backup your files — it'll even do the legwork for you. When plugged in, backup updates happen automatically, your content is even organized by category. If you do happen to lose your data, the drive will even restore it to its original location on your device. For day-to-day portable storage, try one of Mimoco's MIMOBOT designer flash drives. With storage options ranging from 2 GB to 16 GB, the USB device comes disguised as a popular character — choices range from Hello Kitty to Darth Vader. Each drive is also enabled with mimoByte Sound Software that voices a few lines in character each time your input or remove your device.

Price: $110.49 for My Passport Essential portable hard drive, MIMOBOT designer flash drives start at $29.95

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