Monday, April 27, 2009

Is saving everything on your computers worth $200?

Seagate's Replica duplicates your hard drive, including the programs. For $130 it will do one computer. Two bills gets you multiple full back-ups. I’ve gone through two hard drive crashes over the years. I spent more than $200 worth of my time each time.

6 comments:

Posol'stvo the Medved said...

that article says that it only backs up windows pcs, yet, if I am not mistaken, in the picture, that they credit to Seagate, they have it hooked up to... a Mac.

hmmm.

Dave said...

The comments to the article mentioned that the picture was Photoshopped from a Mac. I guess they look better.

Posol'stvo the Medved said...

Macs do have that curb appeal. My office is slowly replacing our HPs with Macs, one by one. I don't think I could give up my Windows as my primary machine -- maybe as a secondary machine.

Anonymous said...

For $130 you can buy a nice external hard drive and make your own backup.

Posol'stvo the Medved said...

Thomas -- the built in windows backup program doesn't back up your programs or Windows files. That's the added bonus you get with this Seagate solution.

Unknown said...

There are two types of computer users. those who have lost it all to a HDD crash and those who will if they don't backup.

I use the Time Capsule with my Mac. It has a 1Tb backup drive, 802.11n wifi, three lan ports, usb printer sharing and firewall all in one nifty box. The first backup takes forever, but it backs up every machine, XP and Mac, every time they connect to the network.


Pos - Parallels on a Mac FTW! My MacBook Pro runs XP using Parallels and it is awesome. It is faster and more stable than it was on my PC. Just remember to turn off networking in Windows or you will expos your Mac to al those nasty MS viruses.

I was a die hard PC fan until I bought my parents a Mac. Now my entire family is on them and I will not go back.