Introduction

Everyone needs more storage, especially if you travel a lot with your laptop. We also need security and it is recommended we do regular backups. The new trend seems to be toward USB thumb drives, but the speeds just aren't there yet, and the capacities are great for moving a few documents but not major files and programs. The next choice you then have is to either upgrade your hard drive or get an external hard drive, either choice is not great one. External hard drives are big and bulky for the most part and upgrading a laptops hard drive is usually costly and the technology isn't there yet for large capacities. The same thing partially applies to desktop PCs as well, sometimes a CD or DVD is just not big enough to transfer the data you need, so you have to get a big and bulky external/portable hard drive. Today I have something for review that I found really cool and useful, it is a very small USB powered 2.5 inch hard drive from Apricorn called the Ez Bus. It is not as small as a USB flash drive but it is tiny compared to most external hard drives I have seen. It comes packaged with some great useful software, and its own carrying case. Let's check it out and see how it compares to other drives out there.

I would like to thank Apricorn for the chance to review the Ez Bus Portable Backup System.

Specs

Before we get into the pictures let's look at the technical specs from the Apricorn site.

Features:
- Ideal for hard drive upgrades and backups
- Creates exact clone of a Hard Drive
- Generates compressed, password-protected backup images
- Upgrade, Backup or Restore via USB, PC Card or IDE
- Runs Under Windows or Bootable CD
- Supports Hi- Speed USB 2.0 Data Transfers
- Automatic and Expert modes
- Dynamic resizing to match new Hard Disk
- Transfers Images to Hard Disk or Optical Media
- Easy to protect and restore important data and settings