My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive. Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? Thanks! Jimmy...

I will be attempting (for the first time) to connect a new 4100 to an existing 3850 to extend the fabric. My understanding is that the switches will recognize each other and configure the ports they are connected on as E type automatically, forming an ISL. Are there any gotchas I should be aware...

I'm looking to buy a used D178. Do you need the appropriate software to configure the SAN? I'm just looking to do basic SAN functionality such as consolidating server storage into one main rack. I don't need to share the logical arrays I create. Also, if I use the SAN for basic functionality do...

most SATA drives, at least from a given manufacturer, seem to have their SATA connectors at the same place. does anyone make a dock for such SATA drives (preferably which fits into a 5 1/4 bay)? it would be nice to be able to swap in and swap out drives, even if it were restricted to just one...

I start with way of debugging. So can someone suggest how to debug slow performance issue in NetApp filer. I mean what all I should check before coming to any conclusion. During slow performance I found deffered back-to-back-copy in "sysstat" output and around 20% full stripe write in...

When a SATA drive employs more than one cylinder, are they striping data across the cylinders transparently, or are they just laying out data contiguously on any given track / cylinder? I have someone telling me that they have been measuring 150 MB / second throughputs on individual SATA...

Hi all ~ I'm relatively new to RAID, and I'm hoping to find some advice here that could pull me out of a sticky spot. Several months ago, I finally achieved a three-year dream and completed my RAID server project. I built a 8-drive (500gb each) 3TB array. It's a RAID5 array on 7 SATA...

I'm looking at replacing a slew of legacy Netapp filers (F760, F880, etc) and am considering Agami among others. NAS virtualization is not an option as most of the filers are in pocket networks. Anyone have experience with Agami or similar?

My computers HD crashed again and I have to reinstall everything. Recently, these USB flash drives are getting quite reasonable and I began to think how nice it would be if I could used them as a boot drive instead the traditional head thrashers. I was looking at the 3.5 inch dead HD and perhaps...

Hello, I'm considering buying a new enterprise storage system. I know there are a lot of factors to be considered, and most of them are reviewed. But one of the factors which is not clear yet is the individual disk drive failure rate. It may not be important as long as the system is protected by...

I recently had a Dell DLT autoloader die on me and had to replace the system. I had hoped the trends of tape backup systems and software would have improved with time no such luck. I purchased an Exabyte Magnum 1x7 LTO 3 autoloader to replace the old Dell drive and to give us more backup...

We are looking to 'attach' a cd changer in an office to a server in our datacenter. This will be used to copy cd data to a SAN. I have heard this can be done, but don't know how. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Can we use FCIP or iSCSI to do this? Thanks Ken

Hi, I just began trying to configure a PC with an Emulex LP9002 HBA to boot from an EMC CX700. The PC works with the SAN now, when its booted off the internal hard drive, but I'm a bit confused about getting this boot configuration working. Right now, I'm kind of stuck getting the Win2K setup to...

Hello all. I'm considering buying an NAS with RAID for a reliable storage of A/V data. There seem to be a lot of proprietary O/S devices, and I'm concered about what happens if the device itself fails. I have lots of WinXP machines around, so it would be nice if I could mount one of the drives...

I'm looking for an expert who may be able to help us with our new SAN issue. We have so far had 3 HP consultants and 2 other consultants from the company we purchased the hardware from. We are using HP blade servers running Windows 2003. However the servers are loosing their connection to the...

In article , Peter wrote: Hi, I've done the usual google searches but suprisingly there is very little in this size range.... Peter.

I just added a new 250G drive to a 3-drive raid 5 system (making 4 drives now) and although the Adaptec Storage Manager shows all 4 drives as being part of my raid 5 (TomRaid), the extra space does not show up in My Computer and it shows as an unused volume in Disk Manager. What do I have to do in...

I need to build a new database server (SQL server on new HP or Dell hardware) and I have a question about the disk subsystem. I want to separate the OS, logfiles and database files on separate disk arrays. The OS will be placed on RAID1 on the machine's internal RAID controller. I intend to install...

Hi I generally find it hard to find data about the performance of storage - it seems that this is something that vendors perfer not to advertise, except when they advertise something like a number of IO/s that are obviously when it's to/from cache. Some do have tests that show the performance in...

I recently tried to get a faulty Exabyte tape drive replaced. The Exabyte support person was helpful knowledgeable and identified the fault relatively quickly. Eventually it was found the tape drive was faulty and needed replacing. At this point Anacomp took over replacing the drive, I received...