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Darkamek

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At work right now we are useing 2 usb hard drives that we swap every week between 2 other usb hard drives for a back up system. The bad thing is that the usb hard drives get way too hot and take up too much space as well as too many cords to play with. I was looking at doing a single external enclosure that I could just swap the drives from there, that would also be cheaper to just buy new hard drives to replace rather than a whole new usb hard drive every time.

I was looking for something like these.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822155003

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111020

Anyone have any info on how good something like these would be or possibly something that might be better for a network backup system for a small business, that consists of 1 computer acting as a server with 2 internal hard drives and 2 other computers networked into it.
 
Yeah I thought of just useing hard drive enclosure but I was thinking about a box with swapable hard drive trays. Thats why I was looking at the enclosures that I had linked. But if I have to I will go with single enclosures it's just that I would need 4 of them 2 for a daily back up drive to swap each week and 2 for a weekly back up to swap each week.
 
I cannot imagine you needing more than 2 cases with drives. Put in 500GB hard drives. Much cheaper solution.

Backup to 2 different directories, "daily" and "weekly" on the same drive. After your weekly backup, switch with your off site case/drive.
 
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