Rebit 320 GB Appliance PC Backup Kit

Tiffany Young: Hi, there and welcome to Neo-Fight.TV the technology show for the not-so geeky. My name is Tiffany Young Ben Freedman: And I’m Ben Freedman and today on the show we are going to be looking at this guy which is the Rebit. Tiffany Young: What a great name! Ben Freedman: Rebit, Rebit like a frog Tiffany Young: It’s a gadget. Ben Freedman: Rebit a hard drive. Tiffany Young: Not like a shit. Ben Freedman: Can you give the woman a coffee and she walks all over there. What’s up for that? This guy is an external hard drive backup solution for Windows computers. How this all came about? You know, when the latest version of the Mac desktop came out, OS X Leopard and have a thing built-in called time machine. Time machine was the simplest backup. This was your grandmother’s backup. Right! You back up for someone who hated backup never wanted to do backup. Tiffany Young: Okay! Ben Freedman: You have your computer, you plug in a hard drive, any hard drive 500 gig, terabyte, whatever and it comes up with the little things as do you want to use this as a back up drive or time machine? And you click Yes, that’s it. You forget about it. Whenever that hard drive is plugged in it makes backups of your computer automatically seamlessly in the background. A year goes by, two years go by you don’t have to worry about anything. One day you delete the file accidentally or your hard drive crashes. Boom! You got that backup right there and it’s always up-to-date, automatic, nothing to do as long as it is plugged in. Tiffany Young: It could be an infomercial, you know that right? Ben Freedman: Don’t answer yet. See what else you got. Need to back up your car, need to back up your bicycle, no problem. Plug it in there. Tiffany Young: This is me. I’m going to be the bubble heads today. I’m going to be this, go ahead. Ben Freedman: So here’s what you do now. That was for the Mac. What Rebit has done had they obviously saw the genius in that and decided let’s make a very, very similar, very, very easy solution for Windows. So, this is basically an external hard drive that you buy from Rebit. This one’s 320 GB but it comes in different sizes. You plug it in and it plugs into your computer via a USB. This is my USB cord right here and as you can see this is just a very standard sort of external hard drive, nothing too terribly special about it. Tiffany Young: I love that name, but ridiculously it’s simple back up. Ben Freedman: Ridiculously simple backup. Tiffany Young: Really cool! Ben Freedman: Yes, right there. It comes with a stand if you want to stand it upright. I’m going to plug this in right here. Now when you plug it into the computer, it automatically runs the installation software. I’m hoping it’s going to come up here and actually this is my first time I plug it in to this particular machine because I want you guys to sort of see it right from the beginning. Tiffany Young: See, how easy it is! How ridiculously simple it is! Ben Freedman: Indeed! But so far, oh, here it goes. It takes a second for direct line so something like what’s happening. Tiffany Young: It’s taking. It’s taking. Ben Freedman: So you can see up here on the screen all is coming up with this button which says Start Rebit. So I’m going to click on OK. Once again it’s asking me to answer it. Of course I read the user agreement. Don’t you read everyone of these? Tiffany Young: How would, give us time? Ben Freedman: Welcome to Rebit comes up now on the screen. And that’s it. Now, when you first plug it in it has to make your complete backup of your hard drive. So this takes a little time but you can still be using you computer even while this is working and it says here if you’re curious just hover them over my icon to see what I’m doing. So I’m going to close this down here and that’s it. Tiffany Young: This is pretty cool. Very simple, as simple as good. Ben Freedman: It says here Rebit is connected. Rebit is protecting your computer. It says please enter the license key that came with it. So, do we have a license key around here I probably should have done this before I figure that out. Where is the license key? Ok, talk for a second. Tiffany Young: Yeah, I was at ready to do that. Thank you. Ben Freedman: Here it is. Go on, talk. Tiffany Young: So— Ben Freedman: Jay, blur this license key out. Well come back here while I’m using this license key. Tiffany Young: This is perfect for like Matt’s mom present to grandma. She has lost two computers, two back ups, two things of photos and still to this day cannot figure how to back anything up and I would’ve done that, drag and drop instead of windows machine. Drag and drop, here is your hard drive. This is how you do it and bless her heart it just doesn’t seem to be sinking in. I love you Terry but really this would be a perfect product for you. Ben Freedman: Now what’s going on here, if I go down here to the little icon on the bottom of the screen and hover over it, it will say creating a recovery point. So what it’s doing right now is it’s actually backing up the entire computer and this will take quite a bit of time. I've got I think about 80GB with the stuff on this hard drive backing up to this 320 GB disk. So it’s going to back up but once it has done at first initial back up everything else is automatic. The moment that you saved a file it’ll make you copy that file. When you update that file it updates. If you take some new photos put it on here, take it and transfer it over. Tiffany Young: So you’re not making duplicate copies of anything at any point in time, right? Ben Freedman: No, you are. You’re duplicating everything. Tiffany Young: Well, I mean duplicate copies on the hard drives. Ben Freedman: Well, it does. It keeps previous versions of stuffs. Tiffany Young: It only updated versions of what it keeps? Ben Freedman: No, it keeps previous versions, too. Tiffany Young: Oh! Ben Freedman: So, if you make five changes to a word document you can go back and just find those five. You know when you overwrite something by accident. You can go back and find that. Tiffany Young: Isn’t it takes a lot of hard drives space then? Ben Freedman: Oh, that’s a very good question. So, 80 GB if you update stuff often in such you will still have up that hard drive of the course of a few months. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: So what it then does is it starts throwing away the oldest stuff. The oldest stuff gets thrown away, so if you made five changes to the file and it doesn’t and it running out of room, the next time you save it it’ll throw that fifth one away. So you still have the most recent five changes and five is just an arbitrary number in throwing out that. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Like I said doing math to the fourth power. Now that was you have. Ben Freedman: That’s right. But it’s not like you change MP3 files or your photos, they’re your photos. They only source one copy of that. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: But let’s say you have a spreadsheet you’re working on and as you make changes to it every a couple of weeks it’ll store each version of that. Tiffany Young: So how do you know what to keep more to throw away? Ben Freedman: It keeps everything. Tiffany Young: Well, I mean, it throws away the stuff at the end though. You know it throws away like the older files. Ben Freedman: Only the older stuff, so it’s going to delete an MP3 file to save the fifth version of a spreadsheet. It will delete one of the old versions. Tiffany Young: Okay, I got you. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Okay. Thank you for explaining to me. Ben Freedman: Now, so what I’m going to do is you know it helps up here. Tiffany Young: So confusing. Ben Freedman: It’s not funny. Anytime you want to you can go back here and recover those files so if you accidentally delete the file or found out it’s corrupt or a worst case scenario. Let’s say your entire hard drive just crashes then what you do is you go out you buy a new hard drive, put it in the computer, you boot off of this recovery CD and it copies this back to your new hard drive. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: So literally within an hour or two. Boom! You back up them right. Tiffany Young: You just can’t buy a Mac if you’re using a Windows. So you have to use the same operating system that you use before. Correct? Ben Freedman: That is correct. You cannot restore a Window XP to a Mac. Tiffany Young: I’m just saying. You know, those are questions valid questions that you pull me up. Ben Freedman: I appreciate you’re clearing that up for our customers. So here, there’s nothing else to show I mean because this is going to take a while to back up. But again, as long as you keep it plugged in and if you don’t plug it in it’ll re-sync when you do plug it in. But you know it’s great for like I said this is going to Grandma’s house because you know she backs up once a year. This is great. There is no user interface. You don’t have to see anything. Tiffany Young: So do you think it’s necessary to back up your backup? Ben Freedman: No. I think like Mr. Alex Lindsay says files don’t exist. Let’s say it exists in two places. So here you’ve got the stuff in two places. You got it on your laptop and on your backup. Tiffany Young: All right. Ben Freedman: Do you want to have a backup of your backup? Both of these would have to die if you’ll lose that so it’s up to you. You want to make a backup of your backup, you can do that. Tiffany Young: So what I'm thinking is— Ben Freedman: You can plug two of these in. Tiffany Young: I’ve got a terabyte, a 500 gig and what I’ve been doing is just taking whatever files I want. Ben Freedman: No, no. You’re moving you are not backing up. Tiffany Young: No, exactly. That’s what I’ve said. I’m moving files over and so backing up my system. I think a better way. maybe smarter way is just to back up each computer and then basically you can write on here. Windows XP, you know. Ben Freedman: This is why I asked Tiffany, do you have a backup, “Oh, yeah I have a backup” but your idea of a backup wasn’t a backup. Tiffany Young: It’s a drag and drop. Ben Freedman: You are running out of hard drive space on your computer so you bought a big drive and you were moving stuff over and you go, “I've got a back up.” Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: But you weren’t. You were moving it off to your computer so you still only had one copy of it. Tiffany Young: That’s exactly right. Ben Freedman: Naughty Tiffany. Tiffany Young: So now I have a terabyte that’s full and I have to buy another terabyte to back that one up. Ben Freedman: Well, and you do. Tiffany Young: It’s a running cycle. Ben Freedman: It is. You know you have a lot of stuff on that. Anyways, so that is the Rebit, simply ridiculous, ridiculously simple backup for PC only. It doesn’t work for Mac. But of course, Mac has time machine. Tiffany Young: Price? Ben Freedman: Price. Good question. I haven’t written down over here. The 320 GB version is $149.00. Tiffany Young: Oh, what a great price! Ben Freedman: Yeah, it’s one of the big hard drive. Tiffany Young: Well, still it’s got the software that goes with it. Ben Freedman: It doesn’t got the software and it always sort the stuff with it so it’s not too expensive and you can buy the 500 or the terabyte version for incrementally more. Tiffany Young: Now has everybody pretty much have terabytes at this point? I mean it’s terabyte, it’s not a standard. Ben Freedman: Not on the laptops. Most laptops still come with 300 or so gigs. Tiffany Young: I mean the back ups like terabytes a pretty standard across the board. Ben Freedman: I’ll go to terabytes because then you can store multiple copies like you’re saying. Tiffany Young: Multiple drag and drops, whatever. Ben Freedman: So you know I obviously can share much more of this but it’s a great solution if you’re looking for backup. And we’ve got another segment coming right back after this so please stay tuned. Hey, we’re back in the second segment today. The hip, cool rage these days is netbook. Have you heard of this term netbook? Tiffany Young: Netbook. No. Ben Freedman: Notebook. Netbook. Tiffany Young: Netbook. No, new term. Ben Freedman: Netbook is like this any laptop that is basically come designed just for internet use just for like emails and web. Tiffany Young: Oh yes. Ben Freedman: Not really like it’s not very powerful. Not a great screen, not very big but a small, light and good for just surfing the web or email. Tiffany Young: Yeah! Ben Freedman: Such is the case with this guy that we’ve seen before this is the ASUS EEE-PC which is three E’s in a PC, EEE PC. Remember that episode. Tiffany Young: Yeah, I do. Ben Freedman: So here it is this cute little laptop. Tiffany Young: Isn’t this so cute? It’s something, it’s so cute. Ben Freedman: Really hard to type on but you know very small, light. You know it weighs about two pounds. Tiffany Young: When someone this dig it’s very hard to type on for me. Ben Freedman: Yes, I think that’s what you said the last time. Tiffany Young: I did. Yes, see I don’t have any issues of it but we have-- Ben Freedman: You can get this now with 9-inch screen 10-inch screen, you know that kind of stuff. Tiffany Young: So, it’s really lightweight, super tiny. Ben Freedman: The question is how do you carry your—and by the way this all go for 2 or 3 or $400.00 usually. They’re very cheap. Tiffany Young: And they are like what, 10 gigs or something? I mean— Ben Freedman: This doesn’t have a hard drive. This uses flash cards. It comes with four gigs and you can put another like 10 gig or 15 gig hard drive. Tiffany Young: So, really don’t storage, no storing Ben Freedman: It’s not storage. It’s not time for storage. It’s time for just surfing an email. Tiffany Young: But you know it’s got an external hard drive and plug it in? Ben Freedman: You can. That is going to be so our good friends at STM that we love. Tiffany Freedman: Yes. Ben Freedman: You know, isn’t this the cutest thing? Tiffany Young: Oh, how cute. Look at that little bag. Ben Freedman: That is STMs. They call that the STM Micro 10. Tiffany Young: Oh, I like it. It looks like a lunch bag almost since it’s small. Ben Freedman: It is very small and again it’s designed for your netbook. Tiffany Young: Oh, how cute. Ben Freedman: Well, don’t look, just show it to the— Tiffany Young: Okay wait. Sorry I forgot you’re here for a second. How cute is that. So it’s got a little keychain thing here, ID, great for travel. Ben Freedman: Yeah, a bag for travel. Tiffany Young: Obviously! Little enmesh thing in here for penholders in this way. Ben Freedman: Indeed. This goes right in this plushy cushy area in up. Tiffany Young: Yes, it’s padded on both sides. Ben Freedman: It slides in like that and you can either carry in it briefcase-style, like so or you have to stand up and give us a twirl. Tiffany Young: You know what I really like about this design is you know how sometimes you just need to grab and go. Other times you absolutely need to be hands free. So let’s see. All right, so it goes this way. No wait, microphone. Okay, so this is pretty tiny. Ben Freedman: It’s kind of like a purse or handbag. It goes over the shoulder. Tiffany Young: I mean this is like my style right here. Nothing too big, you know functional. It gets somewhere ready to do. So all you need is an air card then if you don’t have internet access, right? Ben Freedman: That’s right. Tiffany Young: It’s very cute. Ben Freedman: Yes, it has a Wi-Fi built–in and all that sort of stuff. So you can surely do that. Again very well constructed with nylon and stuff here. Tiffany Young: STM is known for that for sure. Ben Freedman: Yes. Tiffany Young: Great quality. Ben Freedman: Yes, they’re one of our sponsors and we sure love them for that. Tiffany Young: But it doesn’t make spies about their bags. Ben Freedman: Except we love everything to do no matter what. Tiffany Young: Yeah, adorable. Ben Freedman: That is $45.00 for that which is good. A lot of other STM bags are $800.00 or $900.00 bags, bunch with the big bags and lots of pockets and all that kind of stuff. This is not only a small bag but it’s kind of a small price for that kind quality, you know. So if you got a smaller little Netbook we highly recommend the STM bags, so take a look at them. Tiffany Young: Definitely! Ben Freedman: As well. Tiffany Young: Do you think how many different colors? Ben Freedman: You know this one I don’t think does but they have a whole line of bags. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: Now, this one I think this is a brand new for them. So I think they only have the black. Tiffany Young: They’ll probably going to see how sales are going in. Ben Freedman: That’s true. Tiffany Young: Maybe they introduce into the product line in pink or something. Ben Freedman: Pink. Tiffany Young: Yeah, I'm just wondering. Ben Freedman: Because the STM too has a pink bag. Tiffany Young: It’s the pink thing, I know. They’re cute. All right! Ben Freedman: So that’s all the time we have for this week but let us know, do you guys use netbooks and if you do, what bags you use for them? Have if you found any bags for your Netbook yet? Tiffany Young: Wait? What Netbook do you use because I really want to buy one? Ben Freedman: Really? Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Well, this one is a year or so but the newer ones are many more capable. Some of them have flat drives like the HP mini-note. It has a hard drive and-- Tiffany Young: I’ll look into that. Yeah! Ben Freedman: And we’ll also fit it in a tiny bag. Tiffany Young: So, if you guys have a Netbook, let me know, email me, let me know what you’re using and how you like it? Ben Freedman: Or leave your comment, www.neo-fight.tv is the place to go leave those comments and let us know. Thank you STM for sending your bag. Tiffany Young: Thanks STM. Ben Freedman: And if you have an extra 30 seconds, take a look at this.