Back-up procedures

[Total Immortal]

Our 250MB back-up disk can't handle our daily back ups anymore. Can you guys recommend a good low cost upgrade? This will be used to back-up a small private dental office. Thanks.

 

[rkagin]

What do you mean it can't handle it? Is the space too small, or is there too much writing and reading from it? Now a days, you can an 80GB harddrive for a mere $40:

Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE WD800AAJS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives

But I'm not entirely sure what to suggest given that I'm not sure what's not being able to handle the backups.

 

[Total Immortal]

Sorry, yea the 250GB is too small.

We want a removable back-up storage device, something that we physically remove from the office. I didn't know if people still use removable storage media, or if people were switching to external HDs..?

 

[rkagin]

Ah - I was about to say that 250MB is quite small (antiquated in fact). I think external hard drives are the way to go. You could either buy an enclosure for a current hard drive you have, an external hard drive, or a removable hard drive rack. This should do the trick:

Western Digital 1TB My Book Essential USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - WDH1U10000N - Buy.com

(Newegg has 160, 250, and 320GB sizes, but there are also 500, 750GB, 1, and 2TB sizes too)