SmartShare, the gateway to external devices on the Home Dashboard, allows users to browse and share files with laptops, smartphones and external hard drives.

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Advanced data replication features allow for easy protection of files to and from attached USB drives or any network share, including invited members of your Iomega Personal Cloud.

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They had seven months to recreate three years of payments and invoices from records stored on hard drives, computer tapes and paper files.

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For alternate methods of routing audio through the device, there's a USB port that can play digital audio files straight off of various PMPs and USB thumb drives.

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The format is useful for backing up hard drives and manipulating large video and audio files.

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But in his interview with Congress, Bloch said the drives contain, "some government files and some personal files, " according to a transcript provided by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Users can connect multiple Thunderbolt-enabled external storage drives to a Thunderbolt-enabled display and transfer files while watching HD movies, all without experiencing any lag.

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"With most flash drives, transferring a large number of photos and mp3 files can take a few minutes, " said Luc Pierart, Business Unit Manager, Personal Storage, LaCie.

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In these, Jessen's troops sample e-mail, lecture employees to be circumspect about what they put into mail and install procedures and software programs to make sure that the files computer users dump in the trash are really gone from their hard drives.

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