NeutralAxis

Awhile back, I bought two Western Digital Mybook World Edition 1TB network drives.  The first lasted just over a year before it died.  The second one went today, taking down my office backup.  There’s a redundant backup, so I wasn’t really hurt by the failure but at least this time I was able to use some linux knowledge to recover all the data on it. (continue reading…)

As long as I’m mentioning Carbonite today, I may as well give a little mini review of Dropbox too.  In essence, Dropbox makes a folder that resides on multiple computers simultaneously.  While I rely on Carbonite to save me from disaster, I use Dropbox as a simple convenience when I’m needing to work on a file from multiple locations.  (continue reading…)