Since I wrote the review of the NewerTech Voyager Q drive dock last week, I’ve received a lot of great questions both via email and in the article’s comments. Rather than answer them individually, I thought it might make sense to address them here in a quick follow-up article. What drive...

Here are a few things that I recommend for folks who use PC’s … think of them as “David’s Rules for PC Owners” … Backup the hard drive on your computer.  Hard drives are mechanical devices.  They break.   If you don’t want to loose all those photos, vide...

In an effort to better market its flash drives as more than just this generation's floppy drive, Corsair has stepped up at CeBIT this year to introduce the Voyager Port. Put simply, this flash drive dock connects to one's PC and provides one-touch backup straight to whatever USB stick is plugged in....

If Windows Live Messenger is your instant messenger of choice you might like the idea of retrieving all the content that you have accumulated over time including custom emoticons, avatar pictures, backgrounds, deluxe display pictures or dynamic backgrounds. Creating a backup of the multimedia conten...

IT, Storage, startups Wade Roush wrote: If you ate on your best china every night, flew first class even on puddle jumpers, and habitually drove your Mercedes rather than your minivan to the grocery store, it would be a lot like what most big companies do with their data, according to Tom Cook. More...

Why Can't I Copy My iTunes Library to an External Drive? Hi, I'm trying to back up my iTunes library to an external (WD MyBook) 320 GB USB drive (because I'd rather back it up than do the cumbersome method of backing it up to DVD/CD that iTunes 8 provides. For some reason, every time I try to copy t...

If you’ve read Hivelogic over the last few years, you already know that I’m a backup fiend. My setup has changed a bit since I wrote that article, but the emphasis is still the same: I really like redundancy when it comes to backing up my data. I use a Drobo for Time Machine and media ba...

A couple of weeks ago, I set a magnetic money clip on top of my MacBook, killing the hard drive pretty much instantly. It made a funny grinding noise, the beach ball spun, and that was it. The hard drive never had a chance. Fortunately, I have been backing up my Mac regularly with Time Machine, and ...

Filed under: Computers, Advice, Laptops, desktops If there's one important task computer users regularly ignore, it's backing up their data, including important items like their office documents, music, videos, and photos. Things go wrong sometimes: Computers get viruses, hard drives fail, and ex-gi...

Last year I showed a client Carbonite as an online backup suggestion. She liked the look of it so downloaded and subscribed. I'm all for online backups - some swear they aren't secure and that they slow your system down. I've tested Mozy and am currently using Sugarsync. I haven't no...