Wildfire Prep: 7 Essentials to Pack in Your Emergency Go Bag
An emergency go bag should be at the top of everyone's disaster planning checklist. Wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes—whichever natural or manmade disaster strikes, they hit fast, and you need a one-stop grab-and-go for all the essentials. With the recent...
HDD or SSD: Which is Better for Backup?
Without a doubt, the two storage technologies that dominate the market today are hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). But what's the difference between HDD and SSD? Which one should you use to back up your files? What about photos and videos? HDD vs....
How Often Should You Back Up Your Data?
Working for a company with “Data Security” in the name, I spend a lot of my day thinking about backups and data. What usually comes to mind is ways of backing up, securing, encrypting, and otherwise protecting data from threats—loss, disaster, hacking, you name it....
Remote Tech Support for a Day: A World Backup Day Story
I recently played remote tech support for someone whose laptop hung up during a software installation. It seemed that the file system was corrupted, but it was hard to tell. I’m not a tech support person, but I can fill in occasionally, summoning patience with the...
A Letter from CDSG’s CEO About COVID-19
To our valued customers and partners: As the world continues to fight against the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the CRU Data Security Group (CDSG)and its family of brands (CRU, WiebeTech, and ioSafe) is committed to the health and safety of all our employees,...
ioSafe 1019+ NAS vs. 1517 NAS: What’s the Difference?
Lately, I've been asked quite often about the key differentiators between the legacy ioSafe 1517 NAS and the newer 1019+ NAS. Throughout this review, I'll delve deeper into their specific capabilities, why the 1019+ adds value to our client's infrastructures, and how...
How Long Does an External Hard Drive Really Last?
As a Customer Support Technician for hard drive tool technologies, I’m often approached by customers asking: "How long will my external hard drive last?" And then the follow-up, "When will a hard drive failure happen?" or "When can a hard drive be expected to fail?"...
Off-Facebook Activity is Here: 3 Facebook Data Privacy Settings You Can Change Right Now
On Data Privacy Day 2020, Facebook launched a new privacy control tool for users called Off-Facebook Activity. Much like perusing your Google activity, it puts the spotlight on what data points Facebook gathers about you and which companies use this data to show "ads...
CRU Inc. is now CDSG
As of earlier this autumn, ioSafe's parent company, CRU Acquisition Group, LLC, is now CRU Data Security Group, LLC, or CDSG. This new corporate name is more aligned with the corporate mission, which is to develop the products that help our partners and their...
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