[dba-Tech] External hard drive

Not exclusively. I'm going to move everything but the current working files 
to the external drive for storage and I'll be backing up my current work, 
but that only involves a few files daily. I'm not going to update my entire 
C: drive -- it just isn't necessary for me.

Susan H.


> Is this for Backup?
>
> If so, then you don't need a high-powered drive.  I use a WD Green drive -
> it's quiet and cool.  As far as disk reliability vs. brand I don't have
> enough experience for a recommendation.
>
> I use Ghost 9 for automated backup.  The weekly backup takes about 45
> minutes, and daily incremental backups take about 5 minutes.  These are 
> set
> to run automatically late in the evening so I don't even notice. (I think
> the latest version of Ghost is 14!)
>
> What size?  It depends on how many weekly backups of your C drive you want
> to keep.  If you currently have, say, 50 Gb of data on your C drive, and 
> you
> want to keep 4 weekly backups of your C drive, then you'll need at least 
> 200
> Gb on your backup drive.  However, hard drives are pretty inexpensive so 
> you
> can easily afford more than you need.