Chris and Mark, Let me state up-front, that I have nothing to gain from asking this question other than trying to bring this observation to light about what I am watching happen here in the US and the Midwest. Also do not forget that, what you wish to backup and how much there is of this data will dictate the ultimate selection. I state this even though I know the members in general know this information.
Have you considered USB 3.0 Super Speed drives either portable, docking stations, or RAID units ? If you are considering drive units you might as well consider newer faster I/O interfaces to help reduce the time spent to backup, and this newer interface offers a lot more choices than others today and is also backward compatible. For instance, there is the Hornettek Slipper USB 3.0 SATA HDD Dock with One Touch Backup allows you to plug any 2.5" or 3.5" SATA Harddisk via USB port, a powerful tool for data transfer, backup and cloning. With the Superspeed USB 3.0 mode, it offers a theoretical data transfer speed of 5.0GBit/s. That's ten times faster than the USB 2.0 speed of 480 MBit/s. The One Touch Backup function is the best solution as users can easily backup files and data from PC to external hard disk. This accomplished by a one touch backup button. Instead of inserting the drive into a slot like you would with all the other USB docks, the Hornettek Slipper lets you slide the drive inside. This makes it easier to transport. There's a lever to eject the drive for hot-swapping the drives. This is only one of many many many choices after more than a year since this interface started to have product show-up for the market. Yet, I have not seen many OEMs currently selling systems with many, if any, of these SuperSpeed ports. If you need to add this type SuperSpeed port to your system. There are several choices. Here are but a few : For an existing Desktop : SIIG USB 3.0 Card & Front Bay Hub KitAsus U3S6 SATA 6 & USB 3.0 Card For laptops : Seagate BlackArmor PS 110 with USB 3.0 Hard Drive & USB 3.0 ExpressCard For Security and Protection : Data Locker DL3 - Professional Grade Secure DriveShockproof LaCie Rugged HDD Goes SuperSpeedioSafe SoloPRO Fireproof USB 3.0 Hard Drive Please understand that I am not promoting just backing up to a Hard drive. I am trying to show that the I/O bottleneck has had an advancement and I am showing that there are multiple choices out there to choose from based on this newer technology. I have also come across an announcement that says that there is now a Tape drive and media that can backup today's very large drives. I will look for this announcement within my filing system and bring this news to you and the members. I hope this information is seen as informative. Regards, Harvey Rothenberg Systems Integrator/Security Specialist --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Chris Ess <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chris Ess <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Tape backups for the home server? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 10:05 AM On 7/21/2011 9:40 AM, Mark Dennehy wrote: > What I'm pondering though, is backups. I'm looking at > having a few Tb of storage that I'd like to be able to back > up, and I was thinking tape; Why not use external drive(s)? This is the solution I'm currently looking at for my home fileserver. If your backup mechanism uses compression, a 1 or 2 TB drive in an external enclosure and then connected to the system via eSATA may be sufficient. This may also provide faster transfer rates than tape. (I haven't dealt with tape for several years so I don't know what transfer rates are possible these days.) --CAE _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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