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LaCie`s new external drives, designed by Neil Poulton

Amazon has the LaCie drives here.

Update: Buy.com has it here – at an even cheaper price.

Check out this post on LaCie’s site on how to register for your free year of Carbonite.  Not only do you get a great looking external drive, but LaCie is bundling all of their externals with 1 year of Carbonite.

The combination make this one of the best value on storage in recent memory.  The unlimited Carbonite service means you can backup the content you’ve stored on the LaCie drive and all the drives you have dangling off of the same computer.

Even though the service is marketed as unlimited backup, there is actually a limit for every subscriber.  How much value you get out of it depends on the amount of data you want to backup, and whether or not you are on a basic DSL package or the top speed FiOS package.

I can only guess that companies like Carbonite and Mozy really hate FiOS. 

In any case, deals like this is great for smaller companies with limited budget allocated for disaster prevention.  But now that such things are so affordable, there is really no reason not to implement a backup strategy.

ATT DSL - finally unbundled.

The wall is finally beginning to crumble.  This should be great news for anyone who is currently on ATT and is forced to keep the landline.

Now that you are able to unleash yourself, you can choose from hundreds of VOIP providers to provide the voice service.  ATT has been making a lot of right steps recently.  Not only can you get your information lifeline @ $20/mo, you will also get access to their expansive WiFi network.  Good job ATT.

This would be my DSL provider of choice if I were still in a region serviced by them.  By for now, I guess I will have to settle with Verizon’s FiOS…