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Page 3 of 5 Installation: When we plug the QBACK into our laptop it is automatically detected by windows and ready to use. We didn’t do the usual next step of going to disk management and creating a partition, because this drive comes with its own software, so we’ll let that do all the work instead. Now, yes this drive can be used like a normal external drive without the software, but this drive’s worth $80, not $20, and there’s a good reason for that, the software included takes the QBACK from a simple drive case and turns it into a one-touch simple backup solution with the security of AES 256-Bit Data Encryption. Now things are starting to get interesting. The Software: With the drive plugged in, we go about installing the QNAP software, a very simple process with no real configuration options to speak of to complicate the process, at least during the initial install anyway. After the install the software asks how we would like our drive partitioned, one partition for public use that anyone can access, and one for private use that is encrypted and password protected. We are using a 40GB Samsung 2.5” IDE Laptop Drive, (Model MP0402H) and so split it 50/50 for 2 x 20GB partitions. The drive is now fully installed and both drives (private and public) are viewable and accessable in My Computer. The QNAP software also made a copy of its install program in the public partition, so when you take the drive to another PC, it is easy to install the software so you can get access to the encrypted partition (provided you remember your password of course), we thought this was a thoughtful inclusion. The main purpose of the software is to configure your backups, there are 3 options: · Automatic Backup – This backup will be performed whenever the drive is plugged into your machine. Also any time data is changed at the source, it will be automatically updated on the backup drive. Quite useful if you’re the forgetful type and forget to do your backup, this will have already done it for you. · Scheduled Backup – Perform a backup at a certain time, every day, week or month. · Instant Backup – Once you configure this, a backup will be performed whenever you press the ‘instant backup’ button on the drive itself. 
All backups are incremental, meaning it will only copy new files or overwrite files that have changed, this makes backups very fast once the initial backup is completed. You can choose to store your backups on either the public or private partition, the public partition is faster as the data does not need to be encrypted, but the private partition is the obvious choice for any sensitive data you want to hide from prying eyes.
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