Which Hard Drive Do You Use for Image Backups While at a Residential Clients Site

[gikstar]

Are the USB 3.0 drives 'portable' running at 5400 RPM?

In the field they would be external drives and I try to install 7200 rpm drives in these external cases that I put together myself. I try to stick with USB 3.0 external cases even tough many of the system we work on still have just USB 2.0

 

[ChrisTech]

Personally I use either USB3 thumb drives or a Seagate external hard drive on the rare occasion that I back up onsite.

 

[ZATZAi]

Like others I use a WD Passport USB 3.0 Drive (2TBs). I like that it can be easily encrypted and that it can be powered by the USB bus alone. Very small and portable as well, they even have a wireless model now that you can plug SD cards into (It's aimed at camera offloading). I have some thumb drives as well but for system images I like to break out the HDD.

I don't know the Drives RPM off the top of my head but the transfer speeds are pretty good, not SSD good of course. But it's usually the client's machine that is the limiting factor.