Hard Drive purchase advice

I do not know if this is the forum for these types of questions, but I was looking for some advice on the purchase of a hard drive.

I have a few clients that I am always re-installing their systems and I have other applications that I have under development. I was thinking that a huge external hard drive would have allowed me to backup and retrieve huge amounts of customer data. I was looking at some external hard disks in the 2TB range. I was not seeing very many options that had that capacity. Another requirement for the hard disk would be high accessibility.

Can anyone share their experience with respect to external hard drives?

 

Unless I am behind the times, maximum drive space is around 500Gb at the moment, so that would mean four drives.

External drives (USB?) would be slower than EIDE or SATA internal drives.

If you are serious about about size and speed, consider a set (or building a set over time) of SCSI drives. SCSI are fast and you can build arrays of at least eight. They are the main system for bulk storage handling in business.

My thoughts anyway.

Matt

 

Okay. But I really needed an external option because I would be carrying it between customer sites.

 

Are you attempting to provide a "Backup Solution" for customer's business data records? If yes, would it not be more practical to assist customer in setting up hardware / software for an automated fixed/onsite backup/restore solution?
If this is NOT your intensions, please excuse the question.