Does TRIM support hurt data recovery? For example, if I delete a file in Windows will the SSD drive's TRIM support erase the data? If I delete a partition, will the SSD drive erase all of the data that was in the partition? Does it depend on the SSD drive, or are things defined so as to mean the...

I have a digital board that is connected to a 5 1/4" floopy drive through a cable. But I like to replace the 5 1/4" drive by a 3 1/2" floopy drive or other new storage devices. Is there any interface devices that can bridge the 5 1/4" drive and other storage devices?

We've just bought an AX100 on ebay and have it running in our test environment. Cheap and cheerful... While we can run it on a UPS we don't have any signalling set-up so the AX100 does not know it's on a UPS and does not enable the write cache in the storage processors. Does anyone know what...

I am trying to qualify an Emulex HBA this was installed in a Dell Power Edge 2650 server, but not purchased from Dell. The server is running Windows 2000 SP4, I am trying to find out what the actual model of the HBA is installed to verify interoperability with NetApp storage. I have been given...

I have three extra Western Digital 250gb SATA drives that I'd like to put to use. My thought is to put them into a "rack" and make a 750gb RAID array out of them for additional storage on my PC, probably via a USB connection. I've heard of Drobo but is there a less expensive rack I can buy that...

Good morning, as the title says I'd like to send commands (shown in the disk user manual) to a disk directly. Is it possible throug a line command o something similar? Thank you, Emilio.

The frequency with which disk sectors become unreadable seems to have remained relatively stable over the years, though one might hope that it will decrease significantly with the expected move to 4 KB sectors (at least if correction bits per sector increase somewhere nearly...

Hi, we just spent 2 weeks trouble shooting v9.1 and not happy with it. Also, a friend of mine is fighting version 11. The agents keep going down. Can you recommend a version that is more stable than the previous two? .....10 or 12? TIA

Hello, I'm trying to delete the zone/alias config for a HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8. When I try to delete a zone, zone config, or alias I get a message saying 'undefined symbol' (see output below). Can anyone help please? FCSWITCH_NAME4:root cfgshow Defined configuration: cfg: cfg_testsan

I'm newbie in OnTAPdata ( FAS 2050 ) environment , now I have confuse about configuration and authentication method that use in this. So my requirement is Windows client access to CIFS on filer ( FAS2050 ) and filer query OpenLDAP for authorization information. Can i do this without ...

What is the performance increase using a METALUN vs. LUN? What is the sweet spot? Configuration? Thanks in advance. This is for a SQL server.

Just wondering if anyone has used or seen this so-called "raid alternative." They call it a "storage robot." No, I am not spamming for this company, I actually just read about them in PC Photo's enewsletter, and was wondering if anyone out there has heard anything about this storage solution, good...

Hi out there, hope you are all having a good weekend! So a quick question for you all - has anyone completed a large deployment of netapp files for an "archive tier of data" for CIFS type evironment (and unstructured data) - if so, i would like some idea of the level of de-duplication / capacity...

I'm looking for a way to get physical diversity for backup storage. There are friends and family who would gladly allow me to put a box in their house, but I don't want to mess with their computers and all the ongoing headaches of that. So my notion is to have an external hardrive with an...

Hi, does anyone have any practical experience with rebuild times of SATA arrays? I've heard many recommendations suggesting that RAID5 SATA arrays with big (750GB, 1TB) disks should not have too many spindles due to long rebuild times - but how many spindles is 'too many'? I currently work on the...

Hello, For our shared hosting storage (3 to 8 TB of high performance NFS) we've got 2 solutions now: - NetApp FAS2050 HA 3,5 TB with SAS 15k - Exastore 8 TB SATA with 2 heads (IBM Dual-QuadCore 8 GB RAM) Exastore is, on the paper, the best NAS available: - it's simple - it runs on...

Does anyone know how I could automated create q-trees using a script or a other way ?

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:15:54 GMT, Darren Dunham wrote: Yes, this is actually not hard to believe at all. Remember when Sun's st driver would not allow you to write in high-density format on an Exabyte tape (i.e. the 8500's "4.6 GB" format) if you had ...

Softek, which is owned by Fujitsu, purchased a license of Datacores SanSymphony code. The Softek engineer said to me that they had to do a lot of work to stablize Datacore's code. He then admitted to me that if he was in my shoes that he would not use this type of virtualization...

Eric Lee Green writes: it is possible. The only real question is how to scale that approach up to handle commercial volumes of data and thruput and the requirements of replication across multiple mirrored data centers -- and who is to go after this convergence. CERN is...