‘back-up devices’

SolidWorks Back-up Options. They’re No Party, but They Do Shake the Booty.

22 Sep, 2009 by in CAD

The least exciting part about modeling objects in 3D is, without a doubt, the back-end administration stuff. Glorious procedures like making sure users aren’t changing selection colors, adding jacked-up macros or forgetting to back-up their work.

There’s nothing quite like shoving Giggabitties of SolidWorks 3D models onto your local hard drive. It makes that hard workin’ computer run so much smoother, doesn’t it? SolidWorks back-up settings. I’ve never used them. Actually, I did, long ago, then I turned them off. You?

Now, I’m thinking a little different about storage and wonder if you’d like to take another look at back-up options. Yeah?

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Seagate Drops Big, Fat Storage on Small-Biz and Portable Peeps

24 Jun, 2009 by in TECH

Step back price conscious data storage shoppers. 3 new contenders in the NAS (network attached storage) market have risen from the tera-byte tundra of Seagate Technology. True, they’ll only store billions of files, instead of quadrillions, but for the price and features, I think you’ll be ok for a few months.

The Seagate BlackArmor brand splits off a 4TB shared storage solution for up to 20 PCs, an external model with up to 2TB, and a portable version, thinner than your wallet, with a mere 500GB. And besides all the data capcity, they’re pretty slick looking.

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