We are moving this weekend. Our company is about 50 employees on a W2K/W2K3 domain, and we're moving about 10 miles 'down the road'. We are doing a complete backup the night before and using a professional moving company to move all equipment. They have moved computers before, and they pack everything securely for transport, but I am wondering, should I remove hard drives from mission critical servers and transport them myself? We have about 8 servers, 3 of which are the most important to the company (client data, Exchange, and more client data)...Or is that even riskier by taking them out of the server? Just need some friendly advice...maybe avoid having to learn the hard way? Any other advice for moving an entire office's network? Much thanks...
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Moving Offices, precautions to take with server hard drives?
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Personally I would let the professionals deal with it. At the end of the day, thats their field - not yours. Taking out HDDs will probably only increase the chance of damage, not reduce it...suppose you are taking the wrapping back off and you drop it??
Also, if any damage does occur, it will be in their hands and not yours....which means you get to keep your job.
If you have done a full backup - keep the media with you, I would say that was enough.
So in summary...if it was me, I certainly wouldnt remove the HDDs.
'When all else fails.......read the manual'
Also, if any damage does occur, it will be in their hands and not yours....which means you get to keep your job.
If you have done a full backup - keep the media with you, I would say that was enough.
So in summary...if it was me, I certainly wouldnt remove the HDDs.
'When all else fails.......read the manual'
You understand what the pros really are. One guy handling the work crew and a bunch of guys that they have hired off the nearest street corner.
I've had too many years dealing with the "professional" movers to put full faith and trust in their abilities to not munge hardware.
There are good ones, but getting consistency has always been a problem.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
I've had too many years dealing with the "professional" movers to put full faith and trust in their abilities to not munge hardware.
There are good ones, but getting consistency has always been a problem.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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I have to agree with Ed in hindsight...We were going to let the 'pros' handle it until we saw that they transported computer equipment by wrapping up desktops in a combination of burlap and movers blankets and then haphazardly putting them in a huge cardboard box on a dolly...no thanks, we moved the servers ourselves and while it took longer, everything went smoothly and we didn't lose one...thanks everyone
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