At Micro-Point we are beginning to phase out back to tape and are moving to External drives for data protection. Disk based backup is faster and more reliable than tape. As a perfectionist, I noticed some minor issues (bugs) with our external storage devices and since I was aware that a new generation of software was available, I decided to investigate. The new package (both software and firmware) had been out for 6 months, so I thought it would be safe to upgrade out storage devices, thereby fixing some minor issue and using the new features. (more…)