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4TB Hard Drives Now Shipping

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Darren McBride

Although 4TB hard drives have been around for several months in external enclosures, Hitachi and Seagate recently made internal drives available to us.  We have tested these drives and certified certain models for use in High-Rely products.  We’re rolling them … Continue reading →

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Advantages of Removable Drive vs Tape

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Removable Drives or Cloud?

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Darren McBride

Removable drives or cloud for backup? We’d really recommend both!  One of the promises of cloud based applications is 99.xxxx uptime.  With the possible exception of salesforce.com and outsourced e-mail, no cloud application is more popular than backup.  But the … Continue reading →

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Why is my Removable Disk Backup Slow?

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Darren McBride

Removable Disk Backup Slow?  Here are common reasons for slow removable disk backup in a bullet list.  Scroll down or click to page jump to detailed explanations and suggestions. You Forgot to turn off Your Anti-virus software during backup. Your drive(s) … Continue reading →

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What Type of Hard Drive Provides the Most Reliable and Fastest Backup?

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Darren McBride

Due to higher density and reliability, SATA drives are taking on more types of workloads, including those required for reliable and fastest backup.  Some people remember the large hard drive study Google did in 2007 essentially showing no difference in … Continue reading →

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Removable Drive Support for Imaging: Symantec, Acronis, ShadowProtect, Appasure etc.

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Darren McBride

How does Automatic Mirroring Technology (AMT) help you to provide removable drive support for imaging software?  What if you need to create extra local data copies, and still support continuous incremental images (including consolidating or collapsing those incremental chains by … Continue reading →

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See us at Networld Interop in May

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Darren McBride

Come see us at Networld Interop in Las Vegas May 6th thru 10th.  The Networld Interop show has become the Comdex of the networking community, attracting professionals from around the world.

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Backup Speed to NAS and DAS

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Darren McBride

NAS (Network Attached Storage) and DAS (Direct Attached Storage) removable backup devices can have different speeds depending on the data rate of the interface as well as the speed of the device and hard drives being used.  The speeds below are backup … Continue reading →

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The RAIDFrame gets a USB 3.0 port!

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Darren McBride

We recently added USB 3.0 connections to the 1 and 5 bay RAIDFrame.  These units now have BOTH eSATA and USB 3.0/2.0 connections.

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Understanding Deduplication and Single Instance Storage

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Darren McBride

The new Workstation Backup Appliance is a Windows based NAS with a removable drive that includes software to backup windows and Mac workstations.  One of the key features in this product is file level deduplication.  This feature was written for … Continue reading →

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