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There will be no shortage of exhibitors here at CES showcasing high capacity computer storage drives in a variety of shapes and sizes designed to tantalize the technologically inclined. But one Toronto company will be touting automatic backup systems for those among us who are less tech-savvy.
Although an official announcement isn’t expected until Monday, the Globe and Mail has learned that Storage Appliance Corp. will be launching the world’s first line of ClickFree backup products here at CES.
If you’re anything like me, you probably don’t back up the files on your computer as often as you should. The last time my old laptop zapped 40 GB of my MP3 files was enough to convince me to buy an external hard drive, but it's still a time consumer process.
ClickFree devices are designed to take the headaches out of computer backups. They come in both hard-drive and DVD-based models, and automatically copy the important files and photos on your computer without the need to install and configure software. All you do is plug them in (or in the case of the DVD-model, drop it in your DVD writer) and the devices take care of the rest. Apparently you don’t need to press any buttons, the devices just seem to know what documents, music files, photos and spreadsheets you want backed up.
“We have completely eliminated the complexity of backup,” Storage Appliance chief executive Ian Collins said. “Research tells us the average consumer perceives backup as a complex and fearful ordeal, so they avoid it. We have changed that. Plug it in, sit back and relax and watch it back up your PC.”
The ClickFree HD 700 device will run you about $149, features a 120 GB memory and can backup the information from fives PCs, keeping the data neatly organized on the drive for easy retrieval.
-- Matt Hartley
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John Sacke from Toronto, Canada writes: Yup --- too true. I have demoed the unit a few times. At first I said "No way - won't work"
Guess what? I took it out of the box and plugged it in. Then I sat back in amazement as it backed up 4,356 files (the entire contents of my PC), without so much as me having to click the mouse. Wayyyy cool.- Posted 06/01/08 at 6:41 PM EDT | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment
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