Guest ThomasAJ Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 I am confused!!! I have attempted to determine an appropriate External HDD by reading many posts on many forums and am now frozen. People talk about: The drive dozing off? Drive not working with W2003 (eg Western Digital and Seagate websites say their drives are not compatible with W2003) etc etc Can anyone recommend a rock solid Ext HDD for small office, simple W2003 environment, will use BACK utility supplied with 2003, small amount of data (30GB). -- Regards Tom
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Re: Appropriate External HDD for Backup Hello ThomasAJ, I can not recommend a special one, but what i realized was, that if cheap or expensive, small or big drives, never had any problem to connect them to server 2003, doesn't matter which version. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > I am confused!!! > > I have attempted to determine an appropriate External HDD by reading > many posts on many forums and am now frozen. > > People talk about: > The drive dozing off? > Drive not working with W2003 (eg Western Digital and Seagate websites > say > their drives are not compatible with W2003) > etc > etc > Can anyone recommend a rock solid Ext HDD for small office, simple > W2003 environment, will use BACK utility supplied with 2003, small > amount of data (30GB). >
Guest Anthony [MVP] Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Re: Appropriate External HDD for Backup Hi Tom, The basic disk inside the housing is generic, but they are presented in different ways according to the driver and the hardware device ID. For an external backup you are looking for: - 7200 RPM - Proper fan cooled - eSATA if you can find it; or Firewire; or USB 2.0 in descending order You want the drive to be formatted as NTFS and to have Write Caching optimized for performance, but this is automatic if the vendor has marketed the drive to be that way. It means you need to use the Safe Removal method, rather than just disconnecting the drive. The Seagate FreeAgent drives are good. You can ignore the FreeAgent software and just use it as a drive. Anthony, http://blogs.airdesk.com/airdesk "ThomasAJ" <ThomasAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1E65E991-9B17-4C0D-B643-BFE02C10ECA6@microsoft.com... >I am confused!!! > > I have attempted to determine an appropriate External HDD by reading many > posts on many forums and am now frozen. > > People talk about: > The drive dozing off? > Drive not working with W2003 (eg Western Digital and Seagate websites say > their drives are not compatible with W2003) > etc > etc > > Can anyone recommend a rock solid Ext HDD for small office, simple W2003 > environment, will use BACK utility supplied with 2003, small amount of > data > (30GB). > > -- > Regards > Tom
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