A recent Enterprise Strategy Group survey found that approximately 14% of companies still only use DAS for their storage needs -- the segment of the market that's primarily using the current generation of removable HDDs and associated disk docking stations. Using removable HDDs to protect these DAS-attached servers gives companies some distinct advantages vs. using locally attached tape devices. These advantages include: Removable HDDs may be used as a normal disks for extra online capacity if needed. The disk docking station may present a persistent disk drive letter or volume to the host operating system, even when there is no removable disk cartridge in it. Removable HDD capacities are as large or larger than To continue reading for free, register below or login
