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August 15, 2006 David G. Dolotta (Santa Barbara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CMS Peripheral 250GB USB BACKUP FOR PC ( UBASE2-250.0 ) (Personal Computers)
I use my CMS drive exclusively for insurance purposes. My desktop computer is full of valuable data (finance files, work files, iTunes Music, pictures, etc.). I wanted a solution that will allow me to recover from a hard-drive disaster. Recently, while updating my BIOS, my motherboard crashed. I had to wait several days to get a new motherboard. In the meantime, if I had a hot-swapable drive (ex. CMS), I could have plugged the drive into the USB port of my laptop and I would have been good to go. Unfortunately, I did not and I was dead in the water for a few days. The BounceBack software included with the drive is easy to use and allows you to customize/schedule backups. I have not use the CMS drive to boot from, so I cannot speak to this aspect. But, hopefully, if the need ever arises, the drive will be successful.
To summarize, the CMS drive & BounceBack software appears to be the best external drive/back-up solution available. However, it is more expensive than...Read more
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