April 26, 2010

Grab yourself a set-and-forget-it backup solution

By
Jim Harris
Technology

Laptop sales surpassed desktop shipments in the U.S. in 2005, according to Current Analysis, and worldwide in 2008, according to iSuppli. This makes computing more ubiquitous than ever before, but with enhanced portability comes increased risk of losing your data. Notebooks are more easily and frequently lost, stolen, dropped, exposed to water and experience hard disk failure.

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