Comments for Online Computer Backup Review

Comment on XDrive to Close Down by George

George — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:28:16 +0000

It looks as though Elephant Drive will mop a lot of XDrive’s backup customers, at least for the US Market.

Comment on XDrive to Close Down by Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:25:32 +0000

Over at Techcrunch they are saying that AOL are trying to sell XDrive for £5M

Comment on What Hard Drive Failure looks and sounds like by Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:27:13 +0000

Backup immediately if your hard drive makes this sound. I was able to get 5 years of use out of my drive - Hitachi Travelstar (08K0633)and 2.5 inch, 40GB, 4200rpm PATA, when it failed but didn’t lose any data.

Comment on Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 External DeskTop Hard Drive by Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:14:45 +0000

This drives comes formatted as FAT32 so it\’s compatible with more systems, but I have reformatted it as EXT3 as I use Ubuntu (Linux) rather than Windows. (I could have used NTFS if I wanted to use it with both operating systems).