That said though, if everything properly breaks, there’s no supplied software to restore your system from the drive.Īn additional backup option is to sign up for some proper cloud storage, which is provided here by Nero. We’re using a 250GB SSD on our Dell XPS 13, so 500GB is enough for us to run a full backup of the system drive. Protect offers you the opportunity to back up files to the drive. So there are extra words to explain what’s happening. These headers, on their own don’t really mean anything. The initial screen gives you options for “protect” “share” and “save”. Once it’s installed, things are a little less clear. The install doesn’t take very long, and doesn’t require much user input. Once you’ve done this, on the drive you’ll find an installer to get the backup and social integration up-and-running.
Do this, Windows - and no doubt, but not tested, Mac OS and Linux - will mount the drive as normal. Installing the drive is no more than plugging it in. We’d like to see an auto-sync app, really. Which will lead to people forgetting, and losing images. Of course, the backups aren’t auto uploaded, so there’s still a lot of user involvement in the process. It’s not really much different from a bespoke app, or from Adobe Lightroom, but it’s a handy idea for a portable drive. To this end, the supplied software can auto-upload to a variety of social media sites. So the answer is to chuck everything in to the cloud. But as useful as having a backup is, if it’s kept on-site - as the IT bods refer to it - then the protection doesn’t extend to a house fire or if someone breaks in a steals your computer AND the backup.