quick and dirty backup

These drives will give you the speed as well as more space.

Please post back if you have anymore problems or questions.

If you want to free up space on these you can use a External HDD as it's considerably faster and if speed is your only measure you can use a Firewire External Drive/s if you have a Firewire Port on one of the computers on the network.

Failing that you an use a USB Enclosure with your choice of HDD inside it and if these drives where to come out of decommissioned computers they wouldn't be any costs except for the USB Enclosures involved.

For archival Purposes I don't recommend that you store the data in a Backup or Encrypted Format because when it is required it is very unlikely that the Backup software is any longer available so the data can be very expensive to recover or the Encryption Technology used for this data is no longer supported. There is also the potential problem of the Media that you chose to use not being supported any longer so you need to constantly look at your Archival Procedures and transfer any Old Data over to new Media when you are ending the Production Life of a Media Format.

Col