External/Portable/USB Drive Backup - Other Remote Data Backup Service Option

External Drive data backup is another of the options to remote data backup service.

Backing up your critical data on an external drive provides only minimal protection against only one type of data loss...hard drive failure and nothing else.

External drives are easily damaged, lost or stolen. Portable drive backups are rarely taken offsite, are insecure, time-consuming and limited.

Top 10 disadvantages of External Drive data backups are:

1. Affordability: Cheap Storage is High Risk

   External drives cost about $100-500.

   The remote data backup service from Remote Data Backups Inc is most affordable with a fixed annual fee and no risk.

2. Reliability: Failure-Prone Media and Drives
   • External drives are subject to the same data loss risks as internal hard drives: viruses, worms, data corruption, etc.

   • They are notoriously failure-prone, vulnerable to degradation by the environment (oxygen, heat, sunlight, humidity, liquids, dust) and human mishandling (scratched, cracked, bent, misplaced, etc.).

   • Like other magnetic backup media are frequently damaged by electromagnetic fields emitted by TVs, monitors, speakers, etc.

   • Since they are portable, they can easily be damaged. Pocket drives are often lost, go through the laundry, get bumped and broken, etc.

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service guarantees absolute reliability.

3. Data Protection: Not Offsite is Not All Right

   Unless they're taken offsite every night (which rarely happens regularly), external drive backups fail to protect data offsite against natural disasters (fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, lightning, solar flares and earthquakes), or theft, disgruntled employees and sabotage.

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service backed up data is offsite every minute.

4. Data Security: Portable Media = Inherent Risks
   • Where do you store your external drive backups -- a safety deposit box, a glove compartment, a purse, a night stand, or you don't know? Proper storage is in a climate-controlled environment.

   • Is your data encrypted or even password protected?

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service backed up data is completely secure, encrypted and security key protected.

5. Convenience: Manual Process

   Daily external drive backup administration is time-consuming manual process requiring human interaction.

   The Remote Data Backups Inc remote data backup service is fast and automatic.

6. External Drive Capacity

   External drives typically can store all the data on your hard drive.

7. Remote File Access: Not Available

   You can only access your data backed up on an external drive through your local network if the drive is plugged in and shared. You may be down for a full day if you store your backups offsite.

8. File Versioning: Complicated and Unreliable

   Finding and accessing specific data backed up on an external drive can be a hassle, and does not use delta block incremental technology.

9. Full System Backup: Cumbersome, Unreliable

   Backing up your full system to an external drive requires specialized software. Recovery typically is an extremely cumbersome, time intensive and failure-prone process.

10. Support: Nowhere to Run

    What will you do when a backup external drive holding data you desperately need to recover no longer works?

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