Best External Hdd

Hello people i need an external hdd to backup an sbs 2003 installation
which is about 60 gigs. Backup needs to be completed in a 6 hour window. Can
anyone reccomend one for this purpose

You can go Fancy and get LaCie hard drive with the rubber coating.
http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10036

But a hard drive can take like 500G's nowadays. But they are cute.

But I actually recommend you buy 2 Drives the same size/speed, and brand (if
Possible) as the drives in your Server.
Put them in External Cases.
http://www.supergooddeal.com/category_s/42.htm
and if one fails on the server you can swap one out. at 5:00pm

Practically Zero Downtime.

Russ

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"blah" wrote in message
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Hello people i need an external hdd to backup an sbs 2003 installation
which is about 60 gigs. Backup needs to be completed in a 6 hour window.
Can anyone reccomend one for this purpose

I use Seagate external drives and find them to be great.
get one with a high spin speed 7,200 rpm.
I use some small 160GB pocket size drives and they backup 70 GBs in a few
hours no problem USB2

"blah" wrote in message
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Hello people i need an external hdd to backup an sbs 2003 installation
which is about 60 gigs. Backup needs to be completed in a 6 hour window.
Can anyone reccomend one for this purpose

I have a Laptop 100GB I carry everywhere (100GB was the largest out when I
bought it.)

I have this case, but black, but I'd probably go clear now.. Just for the
cool factor.
http://www.supergooddeal.com/Cintre_... p/i201-cr.htm

Even though they are nice and portable, I still like the regular drives,
because more storage.
With backing up 60 Gigs I'd probably go with either same size drive as the
server, but if the server drives are small, then go large.

Russ

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"Pat Horridge" wrote in message
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I use Seagate external drives and find them to be great.
get one with a high spin speed 7,200 rpm.
I use some small 160GB pocket size drives and they backup 70 GBs in a few
hours no problem USB2

"blah" wrote in message
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Hello people i need an external hdd to backup an sbs 2003 installation
which is about 60 gigs. Backup needs to be completed in a 6 hour window.
Can anyone reccomend one for this purpose

we have used a number of usb freecom classic drives 250gb and above and
found them ideal very low cost too


"blah" wrote in message
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Hello people i need an external hdd to backup an sbs 2003 installation
which is about 60 gigs. Backup needs to be completed in a 6 hour window.
Can anyone reccomend one for this purpose

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 02:15:41 -0700, "Russ - SBITS.Biz \(MCP SBS\)"
wrote:

http://www.supergooddeal.com/category_s/42.htm

Directron is a lot less expensive.

http://www.directron.com/




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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:22:45 +0100, "Pat Horridge"
wrote:

I use Seagate external drives and find them to be great.
get one with a high spin speed 7,200 rpm.
I use some small 160GB pocket size drives and they backup 70 GBs in a few

Use Acronis True Image to do the clone. Much faster and you have a
sector-for-sector copy. Just remember to change the signature or
Windows can screw up. I use Win98SE fdisk /mbr because it has a bug
which overwrites the first 4 bytes of the signature with zeros. That
forces Windows to create a new installation which prevents any
conflicts with the original disk signature. If you don't do that you
are in for a world of pain since Windows is trying to detect pirated
clones and botches it with legitimate ones.


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"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge

Yes I use Acronis and it's great.

"Citizen Bob" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:22:45 +0100, "Pat Horridge"
wrote:

I use Seagate external drives and find them to be great.
get one with a high spin speed 7,200 rpm.
I use some small 160GB pocket size drives and they backup 70 GBs in a few

Use Acronis True Image to do the clone. Much faster and you have a
sector-for-sector copy. Just remember to change the signature or
Windows can screw up. I use Win98SE fdisk /mbr because it has a bug
which overwrites the first 4 bytes of the signature with zeros. That
forces Windows to create a new installation which prevents any
conflicts with the original disk signature. If you don't do that you
are in for a world of pain since Windows is trying to detect pirated
clones and botches it with legitimate ones.


--

"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge

Citizen Bob, could you elaborate on what you mean by "changing the
signature" when you use Acronis True Image Server to make full disk images?
thanks.
"Citizen Bob" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:22:45 +0100, "Pat Horridge"
wrote:

I use Seagate external drives and find them to be great.
get one with a high spin speed 7,200 rpm.
I use some small 160GB pocket size drives and they backup 70 GBs in a few

Use Acronis True Image to do the clone. Much faster and you have a
sector-for-sector copy. Just remember to change the signature or
Windows can screw up. I use Win98SE fdisk /mbr because it has a bug
which overwrites the first 4 bytes of the signature with zeros. That
forces Windows to create a new installation which prevents any
conflicts with the original disk signature. If you don't do that you
are in for a world of pain since Windows is trying to detect pirated
clones and botches it with legitimate ones.


--

"Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverence. Talent
will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education
will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent."
--Calvin Coolidge

dvw wrote:

Citizen Bob, could you elaborate on what you mean by "changing the
signature" when you use Acronis True Image Server to make full disk
images? thanks.

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