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Tom Hoops

About Tom Hoops

CTO/VP Engineering, Highly Reliable Systems, Inc.

Using Removable Drives for Softwareless Backup

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Tom Hoops

Highly Reliable System’s 2 bay High-Rely, RAIDFrame, MPac, and FirstRAID removable drives allow users unique backup possibilities.  This paper discusses softwareless and automatically redundant backup strategies. The 2 bay High-Rely, RaidFrame, and FirstRAID all have Automatic Mirror Technology (AMT).  AMT devices don’t require special … Continue reading →

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Proper Drive Swapping can increase hard drive life!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Tom Hoops

Hard drives are most vulnerable to physical damage when they are powered on and spinning.  To help avoid experiencing a premature hard drive failure in your backup media, please use the following procedures when you’re swapping your media: If using … Continue reading →

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The Reliability of using Removable Drives and Mirroring.

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Tom Hoops

Customer Question:  We plan to use the 2 Bay Premier as a target for a continuous backup (either Appasure or ShadowProtect) as described in your recent blog post on mirroring removable drives.  Basically, the backup job would continuously run (every … Continue reading →

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Highly Reliable Systems launches new website!

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Tom Hoops

January 23, 2012, Highly Reliable Systems launched it’s new website.  Our more visual, updated look is easier to navigate and presents our products better.  We hope our new site helps you find the removable backup solution you’re seeking.  From the … Continue reading →

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