Lexar Brings Portable Backup in Nano Sizes with Netbooks in Mind

Lexar is finally gearing back up after a long hibernation of dull drives with the Echo Series Backup flash drives. Available in several capacities, the Echo's sport a robust, but streamlined backup software which stays on the flash drive but can also be configured for any computer it is attached to. The software can maintain system backups and with proper OS support can even backup open files while you are working on them. Timed backups and messianic file versioning are built into the software as well. The software piece is built around Dmailer, which shows great promised as a commercial portable package. Congratulations on getting together with Lexar.

The most pleasing part of this offering is that the Echo ZE is nano sized, like this microSD reader and 802.11n adapter. Barely bigger than the USB plug, this nubbin drive is small enough that you might actually use it and be rescued by it. Backups are so important that they probably will be built into most of the next generation operating systems. Until then slim, super simple, external options like this should really reduce the number of people waiting in tear-soaked lines at expensive data recovery specialists. The drives should begin shipping to the US and other markets after February. They should show up for pre-order on Amazon.com soon in 8, 16 and 32GB sizes.