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How Do You Back Up When You're On The Road?

May 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM | by | Comment (1)

Iomega just announced their new generation of portable eGo external drives, streamlining the look and bumping up capacity to 500GB. The eGo line is targeted specifically at travelers: the form factors are slim and the drives are powered by a single Y-shape USB cable. Prices for the 250GB models start at around $85. Convenient, slick, and affordable.

Nonetheless, we're not sure how much longer external travel drives will be popular. Travelers are in a period of literally shameless baggage fees. Travel clutter aside, every little bit of luggage counts. Plus physical peripherals can be physically lost.

Fortunately we're also in an era of ubiquitous wifi. Accessing data on the cloud - whether through enterprise-level services like Amazon S3 or via simple sync solutions like Dropbox - is taken for granted. There's nothing stopping travelers from uploading their data from the road.

Hundred-plus-gigabyte travel drives have only recently become convenient. Before then large external drives were just too bulky. Now - just a few years after it even became possible - the technology could become obsolete. What's the point of carrying around a 250GB drive when functionally limitless data is accessible online? Or is there something about having a physical drive, either for backup or for storage, that will keep Iomega's eGos popular?

[Photo: Iomega via Crave]

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