Major Features for U3 Users are:
Automatic Backup: Your U3 data will automatically be encrypted, compressed and backed up by Disk Hero to a remote server.
Lost or Missing U3 Drive Recovery: If you lose your U3 drive, Disk Hero can completely restore your backed up files and programs. Simply buy a replacement U3 drive and log into your account at Disk Hero from any computer and start the restoration download.
PC File Remote Access: Need a file from your main computer? No problem, you can just start Disk Hero U3 from any computer and download a PC or U3 file to the computer your working on.
Carbon Copy: An added "local" backup copy to speed up disaster recovery when a catastrophic event, such as a fire, theft or lose of system occurs. You designate a target computer or external hard drive, and your entire back up copy of data at Disk Hero is sent over to your target machine. You can have multiple target machines set up for total coverage.
Carbon Copy only copies to the receiving system the most current files, it does not keep file versions, your Disk Hero backup does keep versions.
This local copy allows for a rapid recovery when you have a data recovery need. Carbon Copy is priced at $0.50 per GB monthly. Each Disk Hero application running on a system/device has the optional Carbon Copy software already built in including U3 smart drives, USB thumb drives and PCs.
U3 or USB Carbon Copy:
All functions listed above plus when you install Disk hero on your PC your U3 or USB Carbon Copy is FREE
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Disk Hero USB Carbon Copy is MORE DEPENDABLE than a "sync program" between your U3, USB and PC, because Disk Hero back up files are sent to the backup servers and then to your PC.
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With "sync software", if you accidentally deleted a file from your U3 or USB drive before you have time to use the "sync software", your file is lost forever rendering the "sync software" ineffective.
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You have piece-of-mind knowing that you have an on-line back up copy you can access from ANY PC 24/7 and a full copy of the U3 or USB files on your office/home PC incase you lose your U3 or USB drive.
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Install Disk Hero PC version on your main computer within the first 90 days of this U3 or USB install and your Disk Hero Carbon Copy for U3/USB is FREE for as long as you have an active paid PC account. You must have Disk Hero running on both your U3 or USB and your PC to make Carbon Copy work, because your PC will be the "Carbon Copy Target" for your U3 or USB drive.
Version Control: Disk Hero PC can keep UNLIMITED versions of files for as long as you want. The application come preloaded with 5 versions by default. Every time you make an update (addition or deletion) to an existing file, the new version of this file will be backed up automatically. Disk Hero will keep versions of each file, and provide you with an option to set a maximum number of versions that you want to have retained (see advanced options under FILE within your main Disk Hero application running on your drive). You can recover and download any of the versions that have been saved 24/7.
Backup ANY storage media: When you plug in a memory card from your camera or cell phone into your PC you will see these devices show up as separate drives on your computer. Disk Hero backup can see these storage cards as well and automatically back them up.
Click here to read more on inherent USB and U3 speed limitations
Click here to see how fast data is transferred over modems, DSL and Cable Modems
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Prices for storage space in the following increments:
ONLY PAY FOR WHAT YOU USE IN 1GB INCREMENTS
Billed Monthly = $2.00/seat (device)+ $0.50/GB
Lets say your billed $4.00/month = 4GB. Have less data?
Then only pay for the amount you use.
Examples: your billed $2.50/month = 1GB, billed $6.00/month = 8GB
Pre-pay storage plans available equaling 10% to 50% discounts or as low as $0.25/GB.
all prices in USD
Don't wait for a disaster to get this protection now!
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Inherent U3 speed limitations
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Modern flash drives have USB 2.0 connectivity. However, they do not currently use the full 480 Mbit/s the specification supports due to technical limitations inherent in NAND flash. The fastest drives currently available use a dual channel controller, although they still fall considerably short of the transfer rate possible from a current generation hard disk, or the maximum high speed USB throughput.
Typical overall file transfer speeds are about 3 MB/s. The highest current overall file transfer speeds are about 10-30 MB/s. Older, "full speed" 12 Mbit/s devices are limited to a maximum of about 1 MB/s.
USB supports three data rates:
- A Low Speed (1.1, 2.0) rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (187 kB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks.
- A Full Speed (1.1, 2.0) rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.5 MB/s). Full Speed was the fastest rate before the USB 2.0 specification and many devices fall back to Full Speed. Full Speed devices divide the USB bandwidth between them in a first-come first-served basis and it is not uncommon to run out of bandwidth with several devices. All USB Hubs support Full Speed.
- A Hi-Speed (2.0) rate of 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s).
USB mass-storage
USB implements connections to storage devices using a set of standards called the USB mass storage device class (referred to as MSC or UMS). This was initially intended for traditional magnetic and optical drives, but has been extended to support a wide variety of devices, particularly flash drives, which have replaced floppy disks for data transport. Though most computers are capable of booting off of USB Mass Storage devices, USB is not intended to be a primary bus for a computer's internal storage: buses such as ATA (IDE), Serial ATA (SATA), and SCSI fulfill that role.
However, USB has one important advantage in that it is possible to install and remove devices without opening the computer case, making it useful for external drives. Originally conceived and still used today for optical storage devices (CD-RW drives, DVD drives, etc.), a number of manufacturers offer external portable USB hard drives, or empty enclosures for drives, that offer performance comparable to internal drives. These external drives usually contain a translating device that interfaces a drive of conventional technology (IDE, ATA, SATA, ATAPI, or even SCSI) to a USB port. Functionally, the drive appears to the user just like another internal drive. Other competing standards that allow for external connectivity are eSATA. |
Disk Hero will keep data for as long as your account gives us a "Heart Beat". Heart Beat is defined as a connection from your computer device to our servers indicating that the Disk Hero software is still running on your device. If your Disk Hero account does not receive a heart beat for 60 days then your account is deleted. Business and Reseller accounts are exempt from this "Heart Beat" rule and have an option to retail all versions and deletions made by users to meet their legal data retention requirements.
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