It still goes back to size of backup being done. You aren't going to back up 10TB on USB or disk caddies as a rule of thumb, although for smaller datasets they are excellent choices. TVK
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BACKUP DEVICES These drive caddy systems are slick. Here I just use plain ol' drive enclosures with sata 3.5 drives as the guts. If you can, make sure you get enclosures that can dissipate heat adequately, otherwise you will fry a lot of disks fast! I'd skip the USB interface, and go right to eSATA too. From: Dallas Burnworth [mailto:dallas.burnwo...@zones.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 4:36 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BACKUP DEVICES I guess a lot depends on how much data you have and what your recovery time objective is, but Tandberg Data and HP sell this thing called an RDX that comes in an external USB form factor and an internal SATA form factor. The RDX uses removable hard drives in different sizes and you can use whatever size is available. The largest size available right now is 500GB, but you can buy extra drives that look like old 8-track tapes. http://www.tandbergdata.com/us/en/products/search-result/?action=2&product=23&ref=166 http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/rdx_bs/related.html ________________________________ From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BACKUP DEVICES We currently backup our data to tape drives. We are considering the use of hard disk drive based devices, both removable and non removable. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Murray ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
