Gizmodo: LaCie Offers Unlimited Online Backups For a Year With Hard Drive Purchase [Storage]

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LaCie, designers of some of the best looking hard drives around, are offering one full year of unlimited online data backup free of charge when you purchase any one of their external drives. Each...
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The Saga of the Defective Dishwasher

Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Dave) on under guitar two, best buy, lileks, electric guitar, ordeal, bum, dishwasher, hard drives, microwave, saga, vacuum, tvs, cy, ceo |

Ever get stuck with a bum appliance? Ever been told it has to fail four times before the store will replace it? Sounds crazy, right? But it happened to James Lileks, a writer who took the time to scribe an open letter to the CEO of Best Buy detailing his ordeal.In the letter Lileks describes his prior purchasing record with the company ("fridge, the dishwasher, three coffeemakers, a microwave, a vacuum, an electric guitar, two TVs, four hard drives, and innumerable other items"), and the ...
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Boing Boing: Come Back With a Warrant doormat

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...apropos of bloggers being bullied into parting with their hard drives: check out this nifty doormat, available at Target for 18 bucks and some change....


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Gizmodo: Giz Explains: The Future of Storage [Giz Explains]

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Hard drives, DVDs, USB sticks: This is where we store our digital lives. But while our data is timeless, our storage devices aren't. So, what's next? And then what? More »

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Gizmodo: New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 10TB Per Inch Density [Storage]

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Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. More »

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