Hey everyone, hopefully this is the right place for this kind of question.
I work for a local computer service shop. We have a computer that is currently used for backing up data for customers and doing virus scans on machines that wont boot because of the virus.
As you can imagine inviting viruses to the machine that has client backups is problematic. So i am instituting a virus scanning machine.
We have a ton of "dead" systems that we can frankenstein together to make a machine that will just scan drives.
I was thinking running knoppix or some flavor of linux on the machine, but im not familiar with virus scanning software on linux that will look for windows style viruses.
Also we need the system to have hot swappable capabilities, having to reboot the machine every time to add a new drive would slow down (and having to restart scans because of a reboot would all slow down the overall process).
We currently have this in the 3.5" bay on our backup machine
but no one knows what its called or where to get another because it was bought before i started working and the paper work wasnt saved.
it uses a female to female 20 pin sata cable (power and data on one cable). This does hot swap drives, but sometimes it blue screens if the disk has corruption.
other than that im/we are 100% open to suggestions on what would make a good bulk hot swappable virus scanning system that can also do disk repair (ala chkdsk or S.M.A.R.T scanning)
thanks!
I work for a local computer service shop. We have a computer that is currently used for backing up data for customers and doing virus scans on machines that wont boot because of the virus.
As you can imagine inviting viruses to the machine that has client backups is problematic. So i am instituting a virus scanning machine.
We have a ton of "dead" systems that we can frankenstein together to make a machine that will just scan drives.
I was thinking running knoppix or some flavor of linux on the machine, but im not familiar with virus scanning software on linux that will look for windows style viruses.
Also we need the system to have hot swappable capabilities, having to reboot the machine every time to add a new drive would slow down (and having to restart scans because of a reboot would all slow down the overall process).
We currently have this in the 3.5" bay on our backup machine
but no one knows what its called or where to get another because it was bought before i started working and the paper work wasnt saved.
it uses a female to female 20 pin sata cable (power and data on one cable). This does hot swap drives, but sometimes it blue screens if the disk has corruption.
other than that im/we are 100% open to suggestions on what would make a good bulk hot swappable virus scanning system that can also do disk repair (ala chkdsk or S.M.A.R.T scanning)
thanks!