New portable backup has some flash

They’re everywhere … and everyone’s using them, from college students to the family next door to business professionals and military personnel. They’re virtually guaranteed to appear in any embedded system, too. You’ve probably even used one in the past week – or at least the past month. What are they? USB drives, and while they’re most often used for temporary data storage, Corsair thinks they have more potential than serving as mere flash-in-the-pan quick-storage devices. Thus, the invention of the company’s Voyager Port, which aims to transform everyday USB 2.0 sticks into part of a data backup solution. The portable Voyager Port does not need any external power supply, and it can back up e-mails, data, PDFs, important documents, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, and whatever else you don’t want to lose track of. When utilized with 64 or 32 GB USB drives, it can even serve as backup for netbooks and notebooks equipped with small primary storage drives; that works via Voyager Port’s Disastry Recovery option, which preserves data ahead of time by taking a system “snapshot.” And it accomplishes all this through its NovaBACKUP 10 “award-winning” data recovery and backup software. Voyager Port is even guaranteed to last a full decade, per the company’s (very) extended warranty.