opinion on dell RD100 internal SDA drive instead of tape backup?

[Guest Gary M]

I have a friend with a small business who is looking at getting his first

server.

 

he is looking at windows server 2003, and instead of tape backup dell has

recommended his going with their RD1000, its an internal SATA drive with

removable 80/160 hard drive.

 

what are the opinions on using several of these as backup instead of tape?

 

he really doesnt care about restoring lost files or previous versions of

data, more just for disaster recovery purposes.

wants to be able to always keep one of thise offsite in case of disaster.

 

myself, we have always used tape backups, but from time to time we are asked

to restore a folder someone has deleted, or they have made changes they

didnt like to an important file and want the version from 3 months ago, but

he doenst need anything like that.

 

gary