Skip on USB connected IMO. It's not not reliable enough ALL the time, and your backups need to be 100% reliable. Go eSATA if you're going to go super cheap for the drives. For anything medium-to-large business I'd recommend SCSI only. ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Wright Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 6:31 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies How about a 300 GB USB drive ($250) and software like NovaStor Backup ($120/server)? You can keep several backup copies on the drive, the drive can go off site in an emergency, and if the drive fails it's not costly to replace. http://www.novastor.com/pcbackup/backup/n_backup.html ________________________________ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luchette, Jon Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:14 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] OT: Disk-Based Backups for Small Companies Hello, Anybody know of any good disk-based backup systems for a small company (5 Windows Servers) Ideally I would like to keep it under $5k. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Jon Luchette Emerson Hospital Technology Specialist III Work: 978-287-3369 Cell: 978-360-1379 jluchette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ _______ NOTICE: Internet e-mail communication is NOT SECURE. Please do not include any personal, private or confidential information in your e-mail messages. The information contained in this electronic message is intended solely for the use of the recipient named above. If the reader is not the recipient named above, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of the contents of this message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please immediately notify the sender and destroy the original message.