What is the best external hard drive to use for backup of Windows PC and server data that is fail safe and portable?
Hi,
We use Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drives for backing up our data on our systems each month.
These systems we backup data for would include Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003, all systems are using BIOS.
The Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drive we have contains every piece of data for our business such as databases and Microsoft office files.
We prefer to keep our external backup drive portable so that we can bring our external drives offsite.
This drive is replaced each month at a time by another drive which contains backup data where we switch between two drives each month backing up our systems.
These external hard drives are formatted as NTFS.
These drives are recognised by all our PCs.
We have had a problem with these Seagate external hard drives where, if we have a backup running and the power of our PC goes off, the drive becomes corrupt and we lose our data.
This has happened with our Seagate drives more than once.
What would be the best external hard drive to use for backup of our system's data that is fail safe and portable?
Thanks,
Robbie
We use Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drives for backing up our data on our systems each month.
These systems we backup data for would include Windows 10 Pro, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003, all systems are using BIOS.
The Seagate STDR5000200 external hard drive we have contains every piece of data for our business such as databases and Microsoft office files.
We prefer to keep our external backup drive portable so that we can bring our external drives offsite.
This drive is replaced each month at a time by another drive which contains backup data where we switch between two drives each month backing up our systems.
These external hard drives are formatted as NTFS.
These drives are recognised by all our PCs.
We have had a problem with these Seagate external hard drives where, if we have a backup running and the power of our PC goes off, the drive becomes corrupt and we lose our data.
This has happened with our Seagate drives more than once.
What would be the best external hard drive to use for backup of our system's data that is fail safe and portable?
Thanks,
Robbie
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seagates are the best in the business i'd say keep the hard drives and get yourself a ups so that you dont lose any more drives, also make sure you have surge protection in case your area suffers from lightnings as well
Actually HGST are debatably the best drives (Even though WDC is not the best -- way behind Seagate
Use Hard Drive Docks and rotate drives through it.. Remember the 3-2-1 Rule
3 Backups
2 Different Media
1 Offsite
BackBlaxe-Hard-Drive-Failure-Extrac.xlsx
Use Hard Drive Docks and rotate drives through it.. Remember the 3-2-1 Rule
3 Backups
2 Different Media
1 Offsite
BackBlaxe-Hard-Drive-Failure-Extrac.xlsx
Can backup to the cloud be a solution?
otherwise :
here a rugged one : https://library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=kobler_helmut&article_folder=io-safe-review&page=1
some tips on their use : https://www.remosoftware.com/info/10-easy-tips-to-protect-external-hard-drives-from-failure
best ones https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400958,00.asp
otherwise :
here a rugged one : https://library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=kobler_helmut&article_folder=io-safe-review&page=1
some tips on their use : https://www.remosoftware.com/info/10-easy-tips-to-protect-external-hard-drives-from-failure
best ones https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400958,00.asp