Digital Home Thoughts: The External USB Drive Iron Man Would Use

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You may scoff at $250 for a 500 GB external drive, but for all practical purposes, this thing is indestructible. In addition, when I dug through the specs, I noted that these drives include a $1,000 credit toward data recovery in the event of a disk failure. So, while I'd still recommend frequent backups -- stored off-site -- this product looks like a pretty good way of avoiding some of the risks of an onsite backup solution.