[Cialug] suggestions on HDD based backup

[Dave Hala Jr]

Take a look at this one:

http://www.provantage.com/imation-27771~43MDS3NX.htm

This dock is internal sata and doesn't use the USB 2.0 interface. Doing
large backups (100gb+) and restores via a USB interface is painfully
slow.




On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 11:27 -0500, Tim Champion wrote:
> We are planning on going to a hard drive based backup system at work.
> We are a non-profit on a tight budget (I can spend about $1500 on this
> total), so a enterprise level disk-to-disk system isn't feasible. The
> current plan is to scrap the 160GB DLT backup system, and back up to
> SATA desktop hard drives instead.   A 1TB hard drive is about $80 ($70
> today at newegg by the way), so the cost per GB is pretty cheap. They
> would also not require a tape drive in the event of an actual
> disaster.  A SATA hard drive could go in just about any computer to
> start the recovery.
> 
> Anyway, I'm trying to figure out what to use to be able to easily swap
> out the hard drives on a daily basis since we are on a 2 week
> rotation. I'm considering an external eSATA hard drive dock like this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046
> or one of the many 5.25 inch internal bays with caddies. The
> disadvantage there is buying 10 caddies on top of the drive bay. I
> also once found an internal 5.25 bay that didn't take caddies (just
> stick a bare drive in), but heck if I can find it now.
> 
> I'm thinking about getting a few padded carrying cases to take the
> drives off site. and keep the anti-static bags the drives come in.
> 
> Any suggestions, do's & don't's would be appreciated.
> 
> Tim Champion
> timchampion at gmail.com
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