Re: External Hard Drives Used For Backup - Be Aware...

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On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:40:42 -0400, leew [MVP] wrote:

Ken Wallewein wrote:
That was a disaster waiting to happen.

a) external hard drives are not a business-grade backup device.
b) all backup strategies need to be _tested_ regularly by doing actually
file restores.

/kenw


Perhaps this is another discussion... but what exactly defines business
grade? The amount of money spent on the device? The failure rate?

Frankly, I disagree with part a, but perhaps I'm just not on the same
page as you? In certain environments tape, which I don't necessarily
consider automatically as "business-grade" can simply be very expensive
and even unreliable.

As far as I'm concerned there is no business grade USB drive, they are all
part of a crappy implementation for passing data to connected devices that
should have been limited to keyboards and mice.

With that little rant, if the USB drive has a real fan, provides USB2 and
Firewire, has a warranty of 5 years, then I would consider it "business"
grade.

What's funny, by the time you purchase 12 of these to do a proper backup
you have spent enough to buy an LTO-2 tape drive and tapes :)





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