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Protect Your External Hard Drive From Lizards And Dirt And Destruction

Sam Biddle June 17, 2011 2:00 PM

External hard drives are wonderful for all our gigabytes of tasteful porn and legally downloaded media, but what happens when you drop one? Your data might die. You spent a long time hoarding that stuff! Give it a nice shield.

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