Portable external hard drive for back ups?

mluton

How much data are you looking at backing up ?

Windows intergrated BU program can run at sceduled times, Mine runs at 3.00am to a 2nd hard drive in the computer, then I copy that BU image over to an external hard drive once a week.

timbim_2

And tiny capacity. I would go for the linkstation live if it's an option, it can be shared easily across the entire network. I suggested the mini station as it fulfills the portable requirement in the title.

andy2004

rosebarn wrote: »

Topdiscs . co. uk have a 320gig Verbatim USB External HDD for £109 inc vat & delivery which is a bargain.

NOT a bargin, for £109 inc vat i would say expensive for that price I would expect to get a 1tb external,
saying that, I've seen externals with 1tb / 931gb true formatted size, for around £80
note thats for a 3.5in external not a 2.5in, it really depends on if your moving it around alot
take a looky here
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a890x1y0z1p0s0n0m0
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?NOV-P500 1tb £72
or here
http://www.ebuyer.com/cat/Hard-Drives/subcat/External-Desktop-Hard-Drives
first one is 1tb and less than £70,
1tb usually = 931gb when formatted.

Lifeisbutadream

rosebarn wrote: »

Why don't you just go for a usb pen drive - you can get them for about £10 for a 2 gig one from ebay.
Then just back up your important files onto that.

I run a small business and have up to 50 documents a day with changes - I need something I dont have to mess around with and that will do all the hard work for me if possible.

timbim_2

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

I run a small business and have up to 50 documents a day with changes - I need something I dont have to mess around with and that will do all the hard work for me if possible.

Do you have other people working with you in the office? If so, I would certainly go with a network attached system, if budget allows, go for something like this, which can do RAID mirroring, so even if one of the HDD's fails, the data is still secure. There are other, more expensive, NAS's which have more expandability, but you pay a premium for that.

mluton

timbim wrote: »

Do you have other people working with you in the office? If so, I would certainly go with a network attached system, if budget allows, go for something like this, which can do RAID mirroring, so even if one of the HDD's fails, the data is still secure. There are other, more expensive, NAS's which have more expandability, but you pay a premium for that.

Best shout yet, Raid for better protection.

Lifeisbutadream

timbim wrote: »

Do you have other people working with you in the office? If so, I would certainly go with a network attached system, if budget allows, go for something like this, which can do RAID mirroring, so even if one of the HDD's fails, the data is still secure. There are other, more expensive, NAS's which have more expandability, but you pay a premium for that.

No just little old me in here, so I probably wouldnt need something that sophisticated?

-TangleFoot-

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

No just little old me in here, so I probably wouldnt need something that sophisticated?

Probably not, but you can still get something similar for considerably less.

Strider590

You wouldn't catch me buying cheap, prebuilt external drives.... Not after the number of failures ive witnessed and heard about.

Lawbag_2

Id always recommend Western Digital. I have never had a problem with their drives.

After their ZIP drive fiasco, I still cant bring myself around to trust Iomega.