anyone seen IOMEGA's new baby in the wild yet?

[TdC]

please read this article then seems yummy, and is faster than tape. I wonder at it's unix driveryness, as everyone knows that windows boxen are rock stable and don't need to be backed up

 

[sibanac]

ofcourse at $60 per drive and $400 for device, you might aswell get a few 60GB drives at $60 and put them in $10 drawers for systems that can be shut down or put em in $50 usb enclosures for systems that cant be.

below 8 units its cheaper and has double the storage.

 

[TdC]

bah, your cold logic makes my willy shrink


you're quite right though. I'd prefer a 500GB laCIE firewire thing though, if you push me

 

[sibanac]

bah, your cold logic makes my willy shrink


you're quite right though. I'd prefer a 500GB laCIE firewire thing though, if you push me

Its the memories of the old IOmega "Click of death" that made me bitter

And the fact that I've been looking for a cheap backup system for home and for a small company.

 

[TdC]

imo the least dear is a couple of big drives in an old machine. there's no such thing as a consumer-grade good tapeunit unless you're loaded with cash. BigCompany doesn't care about such things and reels in ultriumunits and tape-robot silos by the dozen heh. sadly they don't deliver to my house

 

[RandomBastard]

A hot swappable sata mini drive is whats needed for the micro IVR and mini IVR formats show promise.

 

[PR.]

Iomega have always made me laugh they always seem to be trying to catch up with the industry.

I bought a Maxtor OneTouch firewire drive 300Gb, theres enough space to backup all my computers to I then keep it in my wardrobe in case disaster strikes.

 

[TdC]

how would you rate your drive then PR, on a scale of one to 10 with cost, easyfuse and stuff? I expect being firewire it's awfully fast too.

 

[sibanac]

Iomega have always made me laugh they always seem to be trying to catch up with the industry.

I bought a Maxtor OneTouch firewire drive 300Gb, theres enough space to backup all my computers to I then keep it in my wardrobe in case disaster strikes.

They try to cater to the small buisness.
For them a signle HD as backup is not a good solution, you need atleast 6 media (one for every workday + weekend)
And DAT is way to expensive, $700 for a good drive on a $2000 server is silly (add to that the fact that most small buisness servers dont use scsi these days and you would need to add a scsi card aswell to that

 

[PR.]

Its pretty good Tdc it all works reliably, my only complaint is the Retrospect backup software is not very intuitive, it can do the backup and create a self restoring image that reinstalls windows then mounts the drive and replaces everything. I just find it doesn't behave the way windows would behave. I was going to try backupexec instead, but I have yet to find a decent Windows backup software

sibenac, I 'work' for a small business and we use backup tapes, its not so much the cost of the tapes/drives its the value of the data although we have two Iomega drives they pretty much go unused.

Where I used to work we gave zip drives to laptop users to send their backups in and most of the time they were sending their laptop in because the drive was knackered or the drivers had decided the drive no longer existed.

 

[RandomBastard]

for the micro IVR and mini IVR formats show promise.

above should read

though the micro IVR and mini IVR formats show promise

 

[sibanac]

sibenac, I 'work' for a small business and we use backup tapes, its not so much the cost of the tapes/drives its the value of the data although we have two Iomega drives they pretty much go unused.

Yes i know, the company is curently using a tape drive aswell, but for their new server they want a cheaper sollution. and i cant say i blame them