CMS Products ABSplus Backup Drive Review

CMS Products’ latest backup and restore product is an external ultra-portable (it’ll just about slip into a shirt pocket) 2.5-inch hard disk drive (130×75x30mm, 198g). Available with a storage capacity from 40- to 160GB, it also comes with good backup and restore software, and is backed by a 3-year warranty.

..CMS’ ABSplus is a good value per gigabyte. It is, however, quite slow (the USB model is almost half the speed of the PCMCIA and at least six times slower than the FireWire model). Of course, backup is seldom a time-critical activity. What’s much more important is for the backup to be there when you need it, and the provided software is definitely up to the task. We’d just like to have seen more data security features.

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