Equipment for hdd enclosures for backup: removable vs. USB 2.0 external?

K

Ken Krone

I have decided to ditch my DDS-3 tape backup as the demands in my home
network are just too great, in light of kids and wife keeping movies and
TV shows. I will be starting from scratch and my thoughts are somewhere
along the line of RAID1 for a hard drive failure and an additional hard
drive for whole network backup, presently about 130GB's including my
wife and daughter's computers. I was pleased to discover that Acronis
True Image 7.0 backed up an image over my home network, and it even
worked when I did a test restore, so I will use that as my backup solution.

Now, the issue is a hard drive and whether to use a swapable enclosure
with additional trays for drives (for that I thought I would use a SATA
drive, as they are apparently hot-swapable and I have SATA connectors on
my ASUS P4PE mb) or an external USB 2.0 enclosure and swap drives in
that. The three options are : 1, a "permanent" hdd in my computer (reco
for 200-250GB hdd?), 2, a swapable enclosure with additional trays for
hdds (which equipment? Vantec? Kingwin? is there a heat issue with the
drives being enclosed? is this a better solution than 1 because of being
able to swap drives?) or 3, a USB2.0 external drive (which one? Mace
Group? others? how restrictive is the data transfer rate with USB2.0
compared to a hdd connected to the mb directly? is this an inferior
solution compared with #2?

Thanks. I look forward to the replies.

Ken K
 
R

Ron Reaugh

Ken Krone said:
I have decided to ditch my DDS-3 tape backup as the demands in my home
network are just too great, in light of kids and wife keeping movies and
TV shows. I will be starting from scratch and my thoughts are somewhere
along the line of RAID1 for a hard drive failure and an additional hard
drive for whole network backup, presently about 130GB's including my
wife and daughter's computers. I was pleased to discover that Acronis
True Image 7.0 backed up an image over my home network, and it even
worked when I did a test restore, so I will use that as my backup
solution.

Acronis is where many of us are heading.
Now, the issue is a hard drive and whether to use a swapable enclosure
with additional trays for drives (for that I thought I would use a SATA
drive, as they are apparently hot-swapable and I have SATA connectors on
my ASUS P4PE mb) or an external USB 2.0 enclosure and swap drives in
that. The three options are : 1, a "permanent" hdd in my computer (reco
for 200-250GB hdd?), 2, a swapable enclosure with additional trays for
hdds (which equipment? Vantec? Kingwin? is there a heat issue with the
drives being enclosed?
YES!

is this a better solution than 1 because of being
able to swap drives?)
Yes.

or 3, a USB2.0 external drive (which one? Mace
Group?

Power and size make USB less attarctive than trays. Trays go into a really
good shock protected case much better. However USB can plug in most
anywhere.
others? how restrictive is the data transfer rate with USB2.0
compared to a hdd connected to the mb directly?

Probably not a major factor for backup.
is this an inferior
solution compared with #2?

I use trays.
 
K

Ken K

Thanks, Ron. I am sure that you do not remember but you had "tutored"
me years ago through my SCSI years. Thanks for your continued info.

Ken
 
K

Ken K

Thanks, Ron. I am sure that you do not remember but you had "tutored"
me years ago through my SCSI years. Thanks for your continued info.

Ken
 
K

Ken Krone

Thanks, Ron. I am sure that you do not remember but you had "tutored"
me years ago through my SCSI years. Thanks for your continued info.

Ken
 
B

Bob

Thanks, Ron. I am sure that you do not remember but you had "tutored"
me years ago through my SCSI years. Thanks for your continued info.

Ken

Jezuz - once is enough.


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* If it keeps moving, regulate it.
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K

Ken K

You are correct, except that my browser told we twice that there had
been an error in sending the message...
 
B

Bob

You are correct, except that my browser told we twice that there had
been an error in sending the message...

Get Mozilla.


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http://www.freewebs.com/vrwc/

Government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases:
* If it moves, tax it.
* If it keeps moving, regulate it.
* If it stops moving, subsidize it.
--Ronald Reagan
 
B

Bob

Utterly clueless, as always.

You really are a prick. That's because you suffer from a justifiable
inferiority complex.


--

Map Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:
http://www.freewebs.com/vrwc/

Government's view of the economy can be summed up in a few short phrases:
* If it moves, tax it.
* If it keeps moving, regulate it.
* If it stops moving, subsidize it.
--Ronald Reagan
 

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