Opinion: Storing stuff safely

Since then Iomega has kept on making bigger and faster external storage devices.

Fast forward to the Internet age and an outfit called Mozy found a way to let you store your stuff safely online, somewhere invisible, up there in the
Internet cloud.

Elsewhere a company called EMC, which makes humungous storage solutions for humungous corporations, was looking for a way to reach into the small business and consumer markets, so the company duly acquired Iomega and Mozy and along the way, Retrospect, a provider of backup software for home and office PCs.

Now Iomega has started bundling all these EMC products and services
together, so when you buy one of their portable hard drives you don't
have to work out what to store where or how to do it.

You can let the software put all your photos and music and stuff onto the hard drive for you, and it will also send your really important stuff up to the
internet cloud in an Irish kind of backup strategy – to be sure to be
sure.

Then you can grab the portable hard drive and take it with you
wherever you go, and even if you break it or lose it, you'll still
have your really important files backed up online, which you can
access from any PC.

This could be handy if you lost your whole notebook, or heaven forbid, your house got sucked into a black hole created by the Large Hadron Collider.

Iomega has a broad line of portable and external desktop hard drives
ranging in capacity from 160GB to 320GB, including the popular eGo
portable hard drive, available in 160GB, 250GB and 320 GB models.

Iomega portable hard drives are available as USB-powered models that
require no external power supply, as well as dual interface models
that incorporate USB 2.0 and Firewire 400 interfaces (for Apple Mac
users).

Iomega's line of larger desktop hard drives range in capacity
from 500GB to 1.5TB, including the recently announced 1TB Iomega eGo
Desktop Hard Drive, available in several groovy colours.

Even bettenews for those who already bought an Iomega drive just before this
latest announcement, is that while your drive is still under warranty
you can take advantage of an offer of a free download of the software
you missed out on.

So now there's no excuse for not having a backup of all your digital stuff, and these days, that's about the only stuff most people care about.