AMD and Streamload have join hands and announced free online storage of 25GB of data. There is another option of paying $4.95 to $29.95. Although this sounds incredible, there are concerns over it.

For example, they are offering 250GB storage at the cost of $10 a month. But the problem here is, in case you loose data and look at the backup to retrieve it, you cannot download more than 2.5GB of data per month. This itself takes 10 months to download all the data. So it's
of what use? You have to decide yourself.

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Mail Recovery for Outloook Express guarantees retrieving email from Outlook Express 2.3. The software aids in recovering damaged messages due to disk failure or malfunctioning of your operating system and recover deleted messages from mail folders and files in Microsoft Outlook Express. The Outlook express tools do not enable to restore deleted messages. Even if, recovered it is only partial.

Features of Mail Recovery for Outlook Express

a. It recovers messages from all folders, dbx files, messages created within a certain time period.
b. It saves recovered messages into mail folder, in text eml files in RFC822 format.
c. The cost of the software is $24

To quote the limitations, the add-in recovers only 5 messages per task done and the free trial usage period is only 15 days. The software does not contain any malware, spyware etc and is tested to be clean.

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For those looking to reduce the cost of backing up data there are many options from free backup to $5.00. Carbonite is one backup company providing unlimited backup facility for just $5 per month. It has achieved a distinct place, with its top notch service. Beating this, ElephantDrive is right now providing limitless storage for free of cost.

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The all new advanced iMsafe 2.0b, is a simple backup application for Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4. The advantages of iMsafe are

a. Backups can be scheduled on any day of a week and it is possible to create as many backups as one wishes.
b. One of the features of iMsafe offers incremental backup option.
c. iMsafe always updates the changes in the data and reduces backup time.
d. iMsafe's convenient info panel enables one to set all backup properties and see the last backup property.
e. There is a green signal on the iMsafe dock while running the iMsafe backup.
f. The report for every backup is automatically saved.
g. The auto-connect feature of iMsafe helps one avoid, retyping the user name and password while backing up other Mac's on the network.
h. The cost of the software is $19.00

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Seagate is now manufacturing pocket hard drives, which are small to fit into your pocket, but can store large data such as music, photos, videos and other digital files.

Features of pocket hard drive

a. Can protect files with a password.
b. Retractable cable, in-built
c. Shell to absorb shocks, ensuring safety of the data.
d. Doest require power supply, as it is powered by computer.
e. 1-Year warranty and free technical advise even after it.
f. Data transfer rate up to 480 Mbps.
g. The price of a 2.5 GB pocket hard drive is $75.00

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The world’s leading player in innovative laptop manufacturing and designer Malibal LLC, has declared today that it is going to add sophisticated mobile hard drive, the Hitachi® Travelstar® 5K160 160GB 2.5” to its entire line of notebook computers.

Featurs of Hitachi Travelstar 160 GB hard drive

a. First hard drive featuring perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
b. The PMR renders 5-times the storage density of longitudinal recording.
c. It has 1-year warranty and round the clock 365 day telephonic support.
d. Is available through www.malibal.com or Tel No. 1-888-MALIBAL.

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SiteDesigner Technologies has released new backup software called BatchSync FTP. The program automatically synchronizes and backs up remote server files.

Features of BatchSync FTP

a. The program is the best solution for email backup, offsite database backup, server backup, web server mirroring and web content distribution.
b. Smart folder sync between local/network and FTP server folders.
c. Transfer error tracking/automatic transfer retries on error.
d. Runs at a predefined schedule.
e. The program can identify the difference between various file systems on Windows, Linux/Unix and mainframe systems.
f. It has a feature that decides on which files are to be transferred and what should not be transferred.
g. Available at http://www.sitedesigner.com.
h. A free trail of 30 days is offered.
i. It works on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server.
j. It is priced at $399 for a package.

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To beat its competetion in the high end disk storage, IBM has launched IBM System Storage DS8000 Turbo. IBM claimed that the new product is improved version of its earlier products in the same line over its competitors.

Features of IBM System Storage DS800

a. Runs on IBM's power 5 microprocessors, delivering 15% improved efficiency than its previous model.
c. It has tiered storage, of which first tier handles storage of frequently used data and the second tier handles rarely used data, using low cost Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) drives.
d. Comes with a three-site business continuity and disaster recovery facility, where in if the main site goes down, its supported by two backups.
e. Comes with a 4-year warranty.

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The Seagate eSATA external Hard Drive, which is available in 300GB and 500GB capacities, delivers data on fast pace, and supports video editing, DVD authoring, audio mixing and 3D animation projects. Its other features include; providing external data backup and protection at speed of 3-gigabits/second interface rate, and integrates Seagate SATA drives with Native Command Queuing (NCQ). It is 5-times faster compared to the existing external storage solution and allows for a RAID setup with the purchase of an eSATA RAID controller.

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The director of engineering for data recovery at Ontrack, Mike Burmeister has few words of caution about data recovery. Ontrack on a regular basis recovers encrypted data on systems where the user has lost the key. OnTrack has confidential mechanism to crack the encrypted systems difficult to crack. Ontrack can efficiently recover the data from broken CD-ROM discs.

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Gateway has unveiled three enterprise storage products for entry level users in small to medium-size businesses, mid-sized businesses and educational institutions. The new products include a storage area network (SAN) called E-842R and two automated tape backups, the E-824R and E-826R. The new storage products have been designed to be both affordable and scalable. The E-842R serves as an entry point into storage area networking, flexible enough to use either high-performance serial attached SCSI (SAS) or low-cost, high-capacity serial attached ATA (SATA II) hard drives. The two tape backup products are both in Gateway's SuperLoader 3 family, designed to avoid human error by automating all backup tasks except for physically inserting or removing tapes from the autoloader.The tape backup system is available at US$2,499, while the E-842R SAN will be available July 13 at a price of $6,599.

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