The LaCie Blade Runner is equipped with 10GB of complimentary Wuala Secure Cloud Storage and user-friendly backup software.

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Likewise most backup and storage for user generated content will stay on local devices even if they can be accessed through the internet.

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These devices provide direct attached storage that can be used to save user content, such as in a backup, to move content from place to place faster than a network allows or even for expanding the useful storage capacity for some common household devices such as some set top boxes or DVRs.

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The backup is encrypted or not, depending on the user settings in iTunes.

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In fact industrial giant General Electric uses one such backup service for all of its hundreds of thousands of user workstations.

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The backup application starts automatically, searching and backing up data without requiring any user interaction.

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