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    The best encrypted flash drives

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:30 am

    If you're physically transporting data you don't want other people to see, you should be doing it on secure media. And what better than something that hides easily within a pocket? Secure flash drives that are only about the size of a small cigarette lighter feature robust hardware security to make them super secure. You'll pay a premium for the integrated security, but you can't put a price on the peace of mind you get by knowing that your data is locked down.

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    Secure flash drives lock down your data

    Posted December 13, 2010 - 12:54 pm

    Hollywood makes secure flash storage look easy. If the bad guy steals a thumb drive, it either blows up or some secret counterintelligence agency marshals the nation's resources in a no-holds-barred data hunt--most likely with Bruce Willis or Tommy Lee Jones working the streets. If the good guy steals the drive, it goes to a special-needs, special-deeds sidekick in a basement somewhere who cracks the code in 5 minutes.

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    Best NAS boxes for less than $1,000

    Posted December 6, 2010 - 6:13 pm

    Buffalo shattered the $1,000 barrier for a terabyte of shared storage back in 2005. With storage prices continuing to drop, that same $1,000 today can buy a four or even five terabyte network attached storage (NAS) device with RAID 5 disk redundancy, plus additional features, like backup storage licenses and indexing capabilities.

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    Storage in the Cloud

    Posted March 15, 2010 - 2:06 pm

    Third-party cloud providers are popping up all over the place, offering a wide variety of capacity/pricing plans. Here's a round up of how each one stacks up in terms of cost, size, and operating system compatibility.
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