You wouldn’t let your child juggle hand grenades whilst riding through the deserts of Afghanistan on the roof of a tank, would you? And yet you trust the thousands of precious baby photos and birthday videos to a crappy old laptop that you never even back up? Before I call social services, here’s an opportunity for redemption.

Online backup is a good start to keep the top priority family jewels safe (along with the lingerie photos of your wife), and I would highly recommend Mobile Me or Jungle Disk for that purpose. But online backups just can’t cope with the huge amounts of data that you’re likely to be dealing with, so then you must turn to external hard drives. The Western Digital Passport is a great choice for a small, quiet and reliable backup disk, but if you really cared about your kids you’d get a NAS.

Now I’m not talking about Nas as in the rapper who rhymes about bitches ‘n guns, I’m talking about NAS as in Network Attached Storage. These are hard disks that connect to your network to make backing up smooth, seamless, and hidden away. What’s more, they can come with 2 hard disks that both contain the same data in a so-called ‘RAID’ configuration. That way you have a backup of your backup – now isn’t that a wonderful way to tell your children that you love them? My current NAS top choice is the Buffalo LinkStation Mini (500 GB or 1 TB) – one of the smallest and quietest NAS drives on the market.

This entry was posted on March 7th, 2009 by Craig Alan Williamson
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