We see it everyday, a hard drive, cd, dvd or any type of electronic storage media containing highly confidential and important evidence transferred around in a cardboard box, jewel case, envelope or nothing at all. 
The contents of that data can be easily destroyed by scratching, dropping or water damage if not properly taken care of. Loosing that data could potentially cost you a client, so why not spend $50 bucks and buy a secure case that is lockable?
A company called Pelican makes air-tight and waterproof containers for sensitive devices like hard drives, guns, cameras, etc. We use them to transfer data back and forth between our clients along with a 4-digit TSA approved combination lock to add more security. The case, depending on the size and where you buy it, will cost you anywhere from $30 to $70 and the locks are sold at $10/lock. A small price to pay considering the alternative…
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Have you ever watched how long it takes to copy 100gb of email onto an external hard drive? I have and it is dreadfully slow even onto a 7,200RPM usb2.0 drive. Luckily there is a new type of connection hardware; eSATA. The advantages of eSATA over USB2.0 are clear, especially for people in the lit support industry who are constantly transferring huge amounts of data from hard drive to hard drive. An eSATA external hard drive can reach transfer speeds up to 3Gbits/second(~375megabytes/sec). That’s right, 375 MEGABYTES PER-SECOND! At that speed copying 1 gigabyte will take ~3seconds to complete. USB2.0, depending on your drive speed and various other interferences reaches speeds up to 480Mbits/second(~60megabytes/sec).
Your next hard drive purchase should be an eSATA one. Things you will need: 1. eSATA card and cable 2. eSATA external hard drive. The transfer speed increase will be significant enough to save you tons of time copying data. While you are at it, use a dos copy application like XXCOPY or Robocopy to handle the copying and stay away from MS drag and drop maneuvers as that will only slow things down.
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