External Hard Drive

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by MattB

How much were you quoted for offsite storage? I use Idrive for a couple of our small servers. They actually fall under 2 gigs so its free for daily online backups, but their prices are really good for larger volume. For personal use its $49 a year for unlimited and for Business use its $500 for 500 gigs. Take a look at it http://www.idrive.com/pricing.htm

i can tell you it was alot

we currently have 80 gig of data so it was somewhere around 400 a month!

[n99hockey]

i took geeksters advice and searched around the knowledge base for usb support and thought i found something
i just had to create a registry DWORD and i would be set

but when i went to find it the Key didnt even exist!
so i decided to contact CDW...they found a USB/Ethernet 500gb external HD that is compatable with server 2003
so im going to attempt that for now (crosses fingers)

here is the link
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/spe...ecs-_-Main+Tab

[rudeboy]

hopefully that will work for you...

potQ.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by rudeboy

hopefully that will work for you...

potQ.

me too!
ill keep you guys updated for sure

[Geekster]

Another problem you might run into is....
How old is the PC you are going to be using for this external HD USB/Ethernet backup? If the PC is "old-ish" the BIOS (w/c is on the Motherboard) may not be able to support a 500 GIG USB (or Internal) Hard Drive. It's beyond it's capacity to even "see" the HD & if it does it can't "compute" the numbers to see the full HD, just part of it. M$ had to do a LOT of coding to extend it's basic 16/32 bit code to enable larger hard drives. Mobo makers had to do a lot of rework for the BIOS & bus lines to enable the larger HD's.

Plus, again: Go into your BIOS to make sure the USB is enabled. Or have you tried it with something else and it works?

I hope the one that CDW is sending works but just wanted to let you know that this could be a problem, also.

off topic:--Want me to start a new thread about me getting "fired". It"s very interesting, at least to me--Back on topic.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by Geekster

Another problem you might run into is....
How old is the PC you are going to be using for this external HD USB/Ethernet backup? If the PC is "old-ish" the BIOS (w/c is on the Motherboard) may not be able to support a 500 GIG USB (or Internal) Hard Drive. It's beyond it's capacity to even "see" the HD & if it does it can't "compute" the numbers to see the full HD, just part of it. M$ had to do a LOT of coding to extend it's basic 16/32 bit code to enable larger hard drives. Mobo makers had to do a lot of rework for the BIOS & bus lines to enable the larger HD's.

Plus, again: Go into your BIOS to make sure the USB is enabled. Or have you tried it with something else and it works?

I hope the one that CDW is sending works but just wanted to let you know that this could be a problem, also.

off topic:--Want me to start a new thread about me getting "fired". It"s very interesting, at least to me--Back on topic.

thanks for your help as usual Geekster!

its a dell server which isnt that old. i contacted them to get the new internals and they told me that the 500 was as high as it could go. so i know thats good. i didnt get in to the bios yet as its a bitch to have everyone stop working while i tinker with the server. i will attempt that as it will take a few days to get the drives here this way i know what to expect when they do arrive

and yes i think you should start that thread

[rudeboy]

i would think (hope) Dell offers BIOS updates, especially for the server models.

potQ.

[n99hockey]

Originally Posted by rudeboy

i would think (hope) Dell offers BIOS updates, especially for the server models.

potQ.

good call on that...i will give them a call on friday
(traveling tomorrow)

[Tony Bag o Donuts]

Originally Posted by mike250rs

considering you have the drives, why not use your laptop? essentaly maping the USB drives and having the server backup to them via your laptop

I'm a bit late, but I would just do it as mentioned above.
Have a "dummy" pc that will backup the data each night.
Use Cobian 8. Free backup software..Very reliable.......

here is dell's support link..
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx

[n99hockey]

that will be last resort i think....
ill also look nto that software tony thanks

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