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A Look at Excessive Portable Storage

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the makes-my-keys-really-hard-to-carry-around dept.

Tom's Hardware has an interesting look at portable storage devices that fall a little outside of the normal bell curve. The reviewed items include Buffalo's all-flash portable storage drive, Chaintech's flash SSD w/ an additional USB port, and LaCie's state-of-the-art RAID drive based on two 2.5" drives. LaCie's drive seemed to come out on top for usability and performance with the main downside being the $600 pricetag and lack of adequate backup software, but all had interesting advantages.

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  1. Lacie - No Incrimental Backup? Seriously? by Gat0r30y · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    itâ(TM)s not possible to make incremental backups, nor to schedule them.

    Yes, I want to buy a 1 TB drive, which cannot make incremental backups. That is quite a ways outside of the "bell curve" as long as by "bell curve" you mean "it has standard features that virtually any useful external storage solution provides".

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