Need external hard drive, Windows Server 2003 compatible
Mark R
2003.
A lot of the Western Digital stuff is pretty affordable and I only need
500GB max, but I don't think they are Windows server 2003 compatible. Any
ideas?
Thanks
Mark
Leythos
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What are you going to use it for?
In general, Seagate, WD, and a couple other big players are good
devices, but if it's under $250 then it's most likely crap. Make sure
that it has a 5 year warranty, cheap/low quality units don't.
If you're going to do backups then you need at least 2 units, more if
you want to actually call them backups.
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to go..
And yes, like Leythos said, Get 2
Rotate 1 week for backup offsite
Russ
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Leythos
sup...@REMOVETHIS.sbits.biz says...
> As long as it's USB 2.0 and the drive can be formatted to NTFS you are good
> to go..
> And yes, like Leythos said, Get 2
>
> Rotate 1 week for backup offsite
As a side note, I bought a customer 5 250GB External MyBook drives about
4 months ago, they are connected to 5 servers for temp backup functions,
since we use tape in all servers. I've found at least 4 instances where
the USB External drives have gone off-line and require a power cycle to
be seen again - they also show write errors just before the disconnect.
Russ (SBITS.Biz)
I wouldn't get a unit that is designed for PC's with the Auto Power thing
for a server.
(Mostly Because of the issue you had.)
however the Buffalo Units for PC's are great.
And they have the Auto Feature you can turn on/off.
(However I still don't use a PC designed USB for a server.
For Servers I get the No frills ones.
(No one touch, no auto power, basic On of power button.)
I usually by the case/Drive separate
then if the case fails I buy a new one
if the drive fails I buy a new one.
I don't like the Sealed in units..
Because of issues I've had with them.
As far as 5 years? I really don't care, in 1 year 1 Terrabyte drive is going
to be 100Bucks and I can get one of those.
Drives are a lot more reliable than they used to be.
The only thing I don't like about Seagate is that the give your a
Remanufactured drive when your RMA unit.
(I don't like that myself.)
Russ
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Russ (SBITS.Biz)
Don't get units with auto power on/off
:)
I keep forgetting people can't read my mind. (No I'm not a woman ;)
Russ
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Joe
> In article <uv8vCl$CIHA...@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
> sup...@REMOVETHIS.sbits.biz says...
>> As long as it's USB 2.0 and the drive can be formatted to NTFS you are good
>> to go..
>> And yes, like Leythos said, Get 2
>>
>> Rotate 1 week for backup offsite
>
> As a side note, I bought a customer 5 250GB External MyBook drives about
> 4 months ago, they are connected to 5 servers for temp backup functions,
> since we use tape in all servers. I've found at least 4 instances where
> the USB External drives have gone off-line and require a power cycle to
> be seen again - they also show write errors just before the disconnect.
>
drives, which run continuously between SBS reboots without problems. No
idea what the chipset is, or the motherboard chipset, but not all USB
stuff is created equal.
Mark R
Looking into it I quite like the 'look' of this 500GB version
Seagate eSATA st3500601xs
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-gb/products/external/esata_hard_drive/
Seems like a good solution??
As you probably guessed it's a backup solution for SBS in a small office,
about 10 users. Slightly difficult in predicting growth, but I'm hoping that
500GB will be ok for a while. If not we'll just have to delete all the files
we don't use and don't need!
Mark
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carrybagman
use Lacie as my preferred manufacturer. I have had a few disk problems
(you have to expect it and I warn the customer about handling and life
expectancy etc). I recently found (after 4 years of this method) that
use of the same power supply causes me a problem. Rotating different
disks on the same power supply, no matter how careful I think I am,
has caused some of the power pins to snap off.
I rotate 5 250GB disks for my own servers (2) but am finding now that
I am lo
I usually backup: -
Server 1
Exchange
Full SBS
File System Incremental
Server 2
SQL 2000 dbs (2 instances)
bruceg
do you take the drives home with you? whats the best way to do a backup
that you can take home with you? i hate the tape drives.
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Jim
<bruceg...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
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>do you take the drives home with you? whats the best way to do a backup
>that you can take home with you? i hate the tape drives.
We backup our 8 SBS servers to USB drive. One takes about an hour, the
one takes 12 hours. But they all work reliably.
Jim