Installed in sleds. The sleds, apparently, make the drives much more robust in regards to dropping, etc. (http://www.high-rely.com/HR3/includes/test.php). The list on the Tandem DXR is $685. They don't sell empty sleds, at least they aren't listed on their web. A 250 GB drive starts at $118 and the price goes up to $321 for a 2 TB drive. The drives in my sleds are all 1TB Hitachi Deskstars. Don't know about what they put in other sizes. Anyway, if I had too, I could simple unscrew a drive from a sled and plug it in internally into a workstation or server and be able to do a recovery.
Jeff From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups Do you need the drives installed in sleds, or do you put in the bare drive? How much did it cost? Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Jackson, Jeff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removable SATA backups Hi Andrew, We've gotten rid of tape using this system: http://www.high-rely.com/HR3/includes/TandemDXR/TandemDXR.php I can't tell on the unit's you've linked to, but this mirrors the two drives, so you pull out one for off-site, while the other drive remains online. The mirroring is done inside the box, so when you plug in the "old" drive returning from off-site, it automatically syncs up with the "source" drive. Anyway, I'm very happy to be rid of tape... Jeff From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Removable SATA backups Has anyone looked into removable SATA drives as a valid backup technology for SMB environments? * http://www.storagesearch.com/nas-3.html * http://www.idealstor.com/teralyte.php * http://www.google.com/products?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS357US357&sourceid=chrome&q=Teralyte&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf I'm trying to determine if this is really more flexible and cost-effective than virtual tape or "traditional" disk-to-disk approaches -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker ________________________________ If this email is spam, report it here: http://www.OnlyMyEmail.com/ReportSpam<http://www.onlymyemail.com/view/?action=reportSpam&Id=ODEzNjQ6MTA0NjIxMDM5MDpwanBAcHNuZXQuY29t> THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. THIS ELECTRONIC MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY PROPERTY OF THE SENDER. THE INFORMATION IS INTENDED FOR USE BY THE ADDRESSEE ONLY. ANY OTHER INTERCEPTION, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR DISCLOSURE OF THIS MESSAGE IS PROHIBITED. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED THIS MESSAGE IN ERROR, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY THE SENDER AND DELETE THIS MAIL AND ALL ATTACHMENTS. DO NOT FORWARD THIS MESSAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE SENDER. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
