Appropriate External HDD for Backup

[Guest ThomasAJ]

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]

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

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> 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]]

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

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>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