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For years, tape has been the only feasible backup and disaster recovery solution, despite its difficult usability, slow restoration time, and tendency to not back up data properly. In short, tape is unreliable, slow, and universally considered to be a headache to deal with.

Hard drives are preferable for backup and disaster recovery because of superior performance, ease of use, capacity, and a lower cost compared to tape. However, disaster recovery with hard drives has not been practical because proper disaster planning entails rotating hard drives and archiving data offsite to protect from viruses, fires, indoor sprinkler systems, earthquakes, and other hazards. High-capacity 3.5-inch hard disk drives are too fragile for such handling and can be easily damaged from as little as a quarter-inch drop. Thus, tape has traditionally been the medium of choice for disaster recovery, despite the bigger benefits of hard drives.

By using blazing-fast, highly rugged, 160-750GB rugged removable hard drives that are safe for daily rotation and offsite archival, you can now accomplish backup and disaster recovery entirely with hard drives, WITHOUT tape. Our removable hard drives use a new patent-pending method that provides 1,200G shock protection, solving the fragility problem of hard disk drives.

The FastRestore RHD is a removable hard drive solution that includes multiple 160 to 750GB rugged transportable hard drives, a convenient plug-and-play USB 2.0 docking station, and professional backup software.

Olixir's removable hard drives have up to 750/1500* GB of native capacity (which is much more than most tape media). The drives are truly handheld - about the size of a VHS tape.

Our solution provides over 2500% faster restoration compared to tape. You can now restore files in a few seconds, and an entire server in less than 1.5 hours (rather than the typical 8 to 16 hours with tape). With a sustained native data transfer rate between 20 to 35 MB/s, this system can back up data up to 3 to 10 times faster than most tape drives.

The removable & transportable hard drives included in this solution have a 1,200G shock protection rating and are thus safe for daily rotation and offsite archival, just like tape! We back this product with a three-year warranty (including damage resulting from drops!), while most other solutions on the market offer just a one-year warranty period.

Our solution costs less than other removable hard drive solutions and tape, yet offers significantly faster backup and restoration, higher media capacity, easier installation, and expandability.

The hot-swap docking station allows you to keep your server "on" when rotating the drives. It is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac, and Linux OS.

This solution can be used with higher capacity removable drives in the future, and is also expandable via daisy-chain connectivity.

With USB 2.0 connectivity, this system installs via plug-and-play operation with most recent operating systems. Everything needed for installation is included, including instructions to configure your backup software for rotation and archival.

Our solution includes EMC Insignia® Professional with five client licenses (expandable). It is also compatible with Symantec® Backup Exec™ 9.0+.

Call us at (800) 719-0595, ext. 101 for a FREE Consultation about how a removable hard drive solution can be implemented, and save you costs, in your environment.

Detailed Product Description
The secret to this solution is the use of removable 160­­­ to 750 GB (native) shock-protected removable hard drives. You can choose the number of desired drives based on your disaster recovery strategy - we recommend at least five (one for each weeknight). The handheld removable hard drives are ruggedized so they can be rotated daily and archived offsite, just like tape, as part of your disaster recovery procedure. A plug-and-play desktop USB 2.0 docking station makes daily rotations of the drives easy. Simply plug drives into the docking station and eject at the push of a button. The docking station is hot-swappable, so your server stays on during rotations. The solution includes award-winning backup professional software, along with a presentation with easy-to-follow instructions to configure the software in a few minutes. The kit includes everything you need to have the system installed in 15 minutes.