Data storage devices, namely, hard disk drives, solid state drives, digital disk drives, hard drives with solid state memory; blank digital storage media and hybrid drives; electronic data storage devices, namely, networked storage drives; computer hardware for upload, storage, retrieval, download, transmission and delivery of digital content; computer hardware and software for processing storage of data utilizing non-volatile solid state storage, namely, hard disk drives combined with solid state memory; solid state storage, namely, a nonvolatile storage medium that employs integrated circuits; computer storage devices, namely, computer memory hardware and hard drives for computers; computer hardware and software for implementing a data center for mass storage of computer files, for storing encrypted backup copies of computer files stored elsewhere; computer storage devices, namely, configurable data storage systems comprised of redundant and non-redundant drive arrays; computer backup and storage systems with multiple removable redundant and non-redundant drive arrays; redundant and non-redundant drive array based computer backup systems; removable hard drive based computer backup systems; external storage devices in the nature of external computer disk drives that wirelessly communicate with handheld computers, tablet computers, notebook computers, laptop computers, mobile electronic devices, cell phones, smart phones, MP3 devices; computer hardware and software for wireless content delivery; wireless data storage devices, namely, hard disk drives; wireless computer peripherals; software and firmware for use in the synchronization, back-up, playing and encryption and decryption of digital files, including audio, video, text, binary, still images, graphics and multimedia files. computer software and firmware for data storage, data retrieval, data access, data backup, data replication, data availability, data recovery, data translation and data conversion; computer software and software and firmware for organization and management of data in distributed computer storage systems; computer software and firmware for data encryption; computer software and firmware for backing up encrypted data files; computer software and firmware for accessing and restoring data files; computer software and firmware for downloading computer files over a network; computer software and firmware for uploading computer files over network; software and firmware for file management; software and firmware for allowing computer files to be shared by others; software and firmware for creating and maintaining a virtual file server distributed over a network; software and firmware for creating and maintaining a distributed file system; software for storing, accessing and managing data and multimedia content on computer network; computer software and firmware for synchronizing local computer files, folders, data and information with a cloud storage platform; data storage computer software for use with and incorporated into computer storage devices; software and firmware for data storage management; computer software and firmware for information storage, namely, software and firmware for processing and storage of data utilizing solid state storage; software and firmware for processing and storage of data utilizing drive arrays. computer software and firmware for use in imaging, duplicating and restoring the original factory level instances of hard disk drive, for use in preserving and restoring software programs and information in a computer, for use in performing diagnostics on hard disk drives, for use in connection with computer disk drives for the storage, backup and retrieval of information, for use in connection with data storage, data management and interconnection, and management and operation of data storage devices, for use in back-up of computer hard drive data, back-up of computer networks, data recovery; software and firmware for allowing unused disk space on a user's computer to participate in forming part of a large grid network for distributed data storage; software and firmware for optimizing routing over a large distributed grid computer network; software and firmware for online purchase of storage space for computer data; software and firmware for providing streaming video over a network; software and firmware for providing an application programming interface allowing third party developers to create applications; computer software and firmware designed to encode and decode data; software for publishing data and allowing access to data; software and firmware for participating in a decentralized storage system; data search software; mobile application software for use in the synchronization, back-up, playing and encryption and decryption of digital files, including audio, video, text, binary, still images, graphics and multimedia files; mobile application software for use with wireless content delivery; mobile application software for use with data encryption. mobile application software for backing up encrypted data files, and for accessing and restoring data files; mobile application software for use in the synchronization, back-up, playing and encryption and decryption of digital files on wireless data storage devices; mobile application software for synchronizing local computer files, folders, data and information with a cloud storage platform