Thursday, January 7

10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance  

10-things-not-to-buy-in-2010: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

I can agree with most of what's on this list, however:

External Hard Drives

Consumers who keep their computers for years and upload thousands of songs, videos, movies and photos will need to get more space at some point.

External hard drives are one option, but an up-and-coming alternative might be simpler and save you another transition down the road. Online backup services, like Carbonite.com or Mozy.com, allow users to back up data over the Internet.

These services are more expensive than purchasing an external hard drive, which typically starts at around $70. At Carbonite.com, a one-year subscription starts at $54.95, and at Mozy.com monthly subscription costs total $54.45 for a year.

Wait a minute. I've got two 1.5 TB hard drives. Now, they aren't full, but I am currently using a little over a 1 TB in this system. True, a lot of what I have has yet to be unduplicated, and it will be eventually, or at least the larger files will be. But still. To backup all that information with any online backup solution easily blows my broadband cap, currently 250GB from Comcast. That's four months to backup, and that's ALL I get to do for four months.

Unless Comcast decides to up that cap (not likely), that's not really doable. And the speed? Incomparable. Especially if you got with USB 3.0.

Expecting external hard drives to go away in the near future, just isn't going to happen.

Relevant Link

Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 1/07/2010 10:39:00 PM    0 comments Links to this post

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

  <$BlogBacklinkTitle$>  

<$BlogBacklinkSnippet$>
posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$>

Create a Link