NoWire

News Flash “Hard Drives Break”.  Especially when they are treated the way most consumers treat their laptops.  We are pretty careful when the drive is turned on but when it’s turned off and in your carrying case, well you know.  Despite all the improvements that hard drive manufacturers have made a hard drive is still a mechanical disk and at some point WILL FAIL. To use an old cliché, it’s not if, it’s when.  If you have been using notebook computers for more than a few years it’s probably happened to you.

Enter the external hard drive.  You can now buy a 1TB (1TB = 1000GB) external hard drive for $100. In a few years, yes a few years, we will buy a 10TB (10000GB) external hard drive for the same $100.  It is merely a matter of Moore’s Law and regardless of the obstacles and naysayers, you can bet on it.

While the hard drive manufacturers continue this race to a petabyte and beyond, we the consumer are trying to figure out ways to fill up all of that inexpensive storage.  As most of us have found, movies and TV shows do a pretty good job of this and as HD video becomes more prevalent 10GB chunks of storage will disappear quickly.

Now let’s get back to the laptop.  While most notebook computer users realize that they should backup their data, most do not or do it very rarely. When their hard drive does crash, the latest back up, well let’s just say some time and many gigabytes of data have usually elapsed. Now why should something so relatively simple be neglected or forgotten?  Convenience!  I know what you are saying, how hard is it to plug in a USB cable and back-up your drive?  Well apparently pretty hard unless it’s an absolute necessity.

Enter Wireless USB.  With Wireless USB those days of neglected backups can be gone.  Each time you walk into the room where your wireless hard drive is, it will backup any new files from your laptop automatically without you having to do a thing.   You won’t even notice the joy of your backup happening while you attend to more important tasks like updating your Facebook page.   If you have multiple laptops for the family everyone can use the same drive to backup their laptop hard drive and share data.  Now let’s take this one step further, would it be cool if you could use that same external hard drive and view or stream content from it to your TV.  I think so!  With Wireless USB and a NoWire™ adapter, you can do that.

Yes there are other wireless ways to backup your notebook computer and stream content to your TV.  Apple sells Time Capsule which is a hard drive and Wi-Fi base station in one.  Also, you can pay for remote storage but again you are relying on a network and do you really want all of your data in “the cloud”?  By the way, they use hard drives too.  You can also use a network hard drive.  Get the theme here.  For a few percent of the population any of these methods are fine, but for the bulk of laptop consumers these are just too complicated.  Not only is Wireless USB easier, but it will back-up your data 3 to 12 times faster than Wi-Fi.

So why can’t you go out and buy a Wireless USB drive now?  It seems while the cost of 1TB is $100 and going down by the day, adding a penny to the cost of a hard drive is forbidden even for the potential of convenience.  We, the consumer have greatly benefited from the race to a petabyte, so wouldn’t it seem like with that savings we could afford some added convenience.  So what do you think, would you pay a little more for easy back up wireless storage?