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Data Transfer Ratings are a "Best Guess" - The Measure of an Enclosure: Part 3 of 6

This post is a part of a six-part series from the white paper "The Measure of an Enclosure-Five Factors to Consider When Choosing External Data Storage". Can't wait to read the whole paper? You don't have to! Read it right here. The paper includes a glossary, charts and illustrations to help explain further.

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Making Sense of USB - The Measure of an Enclosure: Part 2 of 6

This post is a part of a six-part series from the white paper "The Measure of an Enclosure-Five Factors to Consider When Choosing External Data Storage". Can't wait to read the whole paper? You don't have to! Read it right here. The paper includes a glossary, charts and illustrations to help explain further.

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The Cost of Stolen Content

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What to Know Before Buying an External Hard Drive

Are you the type who would like some help to figure out what external hard drive to buy? Are terms like RPM, throughput, SSD and cache confusing? Do you pick up the first hard drive you see when it comes time to back up your data? Well no more! Our new white paper explores the technology to consider when buying your next external storage drive. 

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Removable Drives Have Your Back(up)

Did you know that 53% of small- and medium-sized businesses have experienced data loss within the last 12 months?

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ToughTech Portable Drives: The Gift of Backup

There’s a good reason why so many professional photographers rely on CRU® devices. And if your holiday gift list has a photographer, videographer, or anyone who cares about an easy way to create multiple copies of images, video files, or other important data, the CRU ToughTech® Duo is an essential gift they’ll thank you for.

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iHacked: Exposed in the Cloud

The list of cloud breakins grows, with recent news of user accounts being breached in the ubiquitous Apple iCloud. As FierceITSecurity puts it, this is not just about naked celebrity photos (or naked anybody photos). iCloud is used by pretty much anyone who owns an Apple iDevice, often without users knowing or thinking about it. To be sure, many of the photos and videos stored up in the Apple infrastructure are of cats and bad food photography, but the fact that our iPhone/etc backups are stored in the iCloud is something to think about.

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Spring events: we look forward to seeing you!

Each year we participate in several different conferences and trade shows and we’re coming up on the heavy spring season. Like many other companies, we really enjoy the opportunity to interact with customers, resellers, the press, and other vendors.
In our business, we serve many sectors, and our trade show schedule is quite diverse.

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