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Gifts That Can Save Your Data's Life: Good Portable Storage Options
By: Chris Preimesberger
2008-11-24
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Page 1 of 3 ) What could be more practical for anybody with a personal computer than the gift of personal data storage? Capacities keep going up, as does the number of value-added and optional features. Prices keep coming down, much to the joy of buyers and to the chagrin of storage executives.All signs seem to point to a rather practical holiday gift-giving season
this year, thanks to the uncertainty in the macroeconomy. Save those frivolous
gifts for white elephant parties!
Gifts that promise to have usefulness for a long time will be favored,
economists say, as people try to get the most for their money.
And what could be more practical for anybody with a personal computer than the
gift of personal data storage? Capacities keep going up, as do the number of
value-added and optional features. And prices keep coming down, much to the joy
of buyers and to the chagrin of storage executives.
"The prices are all market-driven. It's ridiculous how cheap these things
are, but it is what it is," Iomega President Jonathan Huberman told eWEEK
a few weeks ago.
Take full advantage while prices are down; since most things in business are
cyclical, the prices will undoubtedly start heading back up at some point.
Here are some prime examples of relatively inexpensive storage
hardware/software packages for consumers and/or small businesses.
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