NOTE I had no desire to purchase, acquire, or have bestowed upon me, any software or programs. I made my purchase at a Best Buy Store but only after consultiong one of their so called experts who assured me of the right choice. I purchased a WT MyBook External Memory as a 'warehouse' for electronic marine navigation charts. Western Digital should find a new company to provide their backup software - this Memeo junk just makes them look bad. They might eventually get it right, but you should wait until then. I recommend that you don't buy Memeo software. Another way to look at it is that Memeo is 50x slower than Windows Explorer. Memeo copies files at 2% of the speed that Windows Explorer does.
#Memeo instant backup windows 8 install#
I copied my nearly 8GB Unreal Tournament 3 install to the drive (1900 files exactly), and that took 10'21". To ensure that it wasn't a problem with the drive, I copied my 1.3GB Guild Wars data file (a single file) to the drive. To be fair, it is verifying the contents of all of the backed-up files as it goes. USB 2.0 may be slow, but it ain't that slow! The whole time, it's been using between 30% and 50% of one of my CPU cores. At this rate, it will take about eight and a half days to complete. That's right: after 19.5 hours of work, it has only backed up about 20 GB of my data. (I didn't take a snapshot of the other screen, which indicates that this process was started at 12:32 am, so it's actually been running for about 19.5 hours at this point, though it apparently was idle for a while) I've left it running overnight and over a day at work, and this is the progress so far.
I set the software to backup my WHOLE drive (from the C: directory down, with no exclusions).
This software is supposed to automatically back up your files as they are changed on your hard drive. It comes with WD Anywhere Backup, which itself is a rebranding of Memeo LifeAgent AutoBackup (I assume the standard edition). The drive itself is small, pleasing to the eye, and not too noisy. I just bought a Western Digital MyBook Home Edition as a backup hard drive.
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