The cheapest is to get from PC-Club a hard drive and tray. Two would cost you as much as a DVD. Keep the HD in a HD shipper in an antistat bag,or in the carrier.

If your blade has a IDE connector you could use IDE.

DVDs scratch, HDs from WD in removable trays do not. Business safe woudl be a good idea. Once on tray, if you had two carriers, one in another computer, the other computer could burn to DVD or whatever, and you would be more likely to get more broad use out of a DVD if it were in your business office. I have been doing this kind of thing (the HD part) for over a year, and I burn the copy to CD-RW or CD-R and those go offsite in a fireproof safe with good thermal protection (bank vault medium sized safety deposit box actually). The vault ones rotate, I keep three sets for core stuff and oldest gets pulled when I stick new one in and used fro newest.

Bank vaults are cool that way, they are air cooled and reasonably secure. My Dad the lawyer kept legal stuff like wills in his for years, no deterioration for 20-25 years for things like his passport and his will.

Cheaper, no shipping loss or intercepts either. so look at what you have handy,maybe a burner in another box that could be used or maybe even a USB 2.0 port on the blade and use an external HDD and burn offsite to boot. USB 2.0 kits for IDE HDs are also available and would take less server load to burn than the DVD which makes a server busier and should be faster for a backup when you need a freeze and the server down for backup to get a really good image. Go to year-behind or 2-year behind tech when on a budget.

If the site server box is not Windows (AFAIK it is not) would use HD approach for better compatibility, and HDs in trays look like ordinary HDs to BSD or Linux. Do it that way all the time. SCSI UW kits are a tib more expensive but can be hot-swapped.

Monarch Computer has SCSI UW stuff including blade bays and carriers. Just antistat bag teh whole carrier and if really wanting to protect use foam in a 2-3 gallon cooler around drive-- make it neat bed out of either furniture foam or.

On Telegraph, bout a mile above Tel-12 mall on the rigth as you go north, there was a data warehouse company that provides guards and security and a pure data environment for customers, including some of the banks up in Detroit.

They took over a Bank data repository and built a business just in that. Been a while since was there, one of my brother's weddings a year back, but IFAIK it still is there.