Some advice about backup hardware...

uoba

uoba

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Okay, we need some serious backup solution in our studio for day-to-day business (web development and design).

We have 3 Macs and 2 PCs. We used to have the OnStream Echo USB30 drive, which in theory was an excellent drive, but 'cause it was USB it had no support in OSX (only Retrospect would work with it anyway, and that had a problem with USB drives in OSX), anyway USB is too slow for a nightly backup of around 30gb.

The other option was to use the OnStream drive with the pc... don't even go their Jerry.

So we sold that. I am now thinking of getting the Firewire version but, is their a viable alternative?

This has to be under the £450 mark ($700(?))... bearing in mind that everything is a lot more expensive in the UK:(

Opions pleassseee;)
 
i am also interested in a backup solution for my Mac... ideally i would like tape drive that could fit in the bay belw my CD-ROM drive on my quicksilver...

does anyone make something like this?
 
All that I've come across (internal drives) have been for pc, even the OnStream internal version the one mentioned in my original post is PC only.:(
 
Ok - I'm assuming you need one 30gb for all of the computers. With that, I'd say a SmartDisk Firewire drive, 80gb @ 299.95USD, is a fast and reliable solution.

If you need 30gb PER computer, I'd say 5x27gb SmartDisks @ 149.95USD/per unit, 749.75USD total - with 2xFireWire IEEE1394A PCI cards (for the PCs) @ ~ 20USD/per unit, 40USD total --

Give it a shot, I can't think of a faster backup solution.

-Brad
 
But I really wanted a removable solution, as so we can backup different days on different tapes. Also, yes it's 30gb for all computers. Cheers.;)
 
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