I have a new T320 with the Perc H710 configured for 8 3.5" hot swap hard drives.The machine is running Windows Server 2012 Essentials.
I want to use an external hard drive for some server backups. The machine is only equipped with USB2 ports, and the transfer speed is very slow.
Can someone recommend a USB3 or eSata card that would work in this system? The only PCI slot I am using is for the Raid controller.
Also is there a multi-drive external enclosure that presents itself to the OS as an external drive? I had planned to do most of my server backups to a NAS array, but unfortunately, WSE 2012 is very limited in what it can to with Network drive backups (it overwrites the last backup each time it writes a new one --- with a big enough NAS one could have a time series of backups, but that would be very wasteful of space, with a full backup for each time point).
Thanks in advance,
Andrew