I Know that WinBench 99 is a populer Program to test Hard Disk performance. I would like to know How WinBench can test Hard Disk in details and What is different from WinBench 99 and other Benchmark Programs.

We have started to migrate a bunch of Windows servers (Win2k server) to our san. The storage is primarily EMC Symm storage. Due to the hypervolume size, we have not been able to create individual luns (Symm meta volumes) as big as the Windows support team would like. The Windows support team...

Hi: We have a 2 steps project. The current situation is no in house backup for 6 servers (windows: a fileserver cluster, and Exchange Cluster a Sharepoint and an SQL one). The customer is buying a new MSL6060 library and plans to connect it directly by FC to a backup server as stage 1, and at...

I have a Compaq Storage System U2 SCSI drive rack (12 bay) that currently has a wide-ultra I/O card with two separate channels, each controlling 6 drives, but allows the creating of a single 12 drive RAID. I have seen that Compaq's 4100 series drive rack seems to use a very similar form-factor of...

Why isn't the read speed across some USB keys at least approximately constant? I have am running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 on a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 based system with 512MB of main memory. I have tried both HD Tune 2.52 tab Benchmark and HD Tach version 3.0.1.0 Long bench (32mb...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?" is one of the oldest and most famous joke riddles still in use in the English language. The most common answer to this riddle is "To get to the other side." When asked at the end of a series of other riddles, whose answers are clever, obscure, and tricky, this...

The company I work for has NetApp file servers and according to our IT people, they can't keep proper time using NTP. Why not? Consequently, builds across network drives are a nuisance. Apparently the clock drifts fast and our ops set the time slow to compensate. We don't have to have the...

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Usually our TrueNAS fileservers (Really just FreeBSD with a GUI) perform well with iostat -x showing hundreds of megabytes/second read or written with the %b (%busy or %Utilization) at only several percent for each disk. But every few months performance goes to hell, with total throughput only 1...

Hi, We are thinking of purchasing the EMC Clariion CX 600. We are going to store our databases on it. We are told that its easy to make a clone of a LUN. We have a 200 GB database that we want to clone very hour. The cloned database will be used as read-only database for clients. Has...

Hello, I have 3 offers for storage systems for primary location and 2 colocations. HP offer: EVA 6000 (15x300GB/10k, 15x500GB FATA) - primary 2x MSA 1500 (15x 500GB SATA) - colocation

I've been given approval by my manager to attend one conference of my chosing. I don't really want to attend any free or low-cost conferences if that means being forced to listen to drivel from various vendors while they wallow in their own percieved greatness. I of course expect some...

Hi ng, as due to repeated, frequent failures and variuos technical hitches I have made the decision to turn away from Backup Exec 8.5 and to look for a new solution. To cut this short, is there a medium-sized backup software solution which is more stable and more transparent than BENT ist ? I am...

I would like to know which raid level is the best for Write operation. I am considering Raid 0, Raid 1 , Raid 0+1, Raid 10, Raid 3, and Raid 5. Also, are there any Raid Storage support Raid4, except NetApp? TIA

hi im planning to buy 160 GB, 7200 rpm external hdd which connects to my laptop. i have three choices first is Segate,second is Hitachi and third is Western Digital. which one u think if of good quality and which one can you suggest me to buy ? but found some reviews like this one "I bought this...

I have the option of using 146GB drives (instead of 72GB) on my SAN (FAST700), but am afraid of disk contention issues and rebuild times (raid 5) if one of my drives goes bad. Does anybody have any opinions on these matters? thanks

Your opinions please! Which is faster: (6) U320 15K drives in a RAID 10 array, attached to a PCI-X controller. or (6) SATA-300 10K drives in a RAID 10 array, attached to a PCI-E controller.

Hi, I know this opens a bucket of worms, and I know that in part it depends on which burner you are using and which software you are burning with. And that it depends more on the manufacturer of the discs as opposed to the brand name. But I have heard that there are SOME disc brands which...

Hello, I had a loong list of technical questions over the phone today for a new job. From How do you get the return code from a shellscript (easy - echo $?) to Which approach to maximise speed with a SAN? I dunno, but as I have to meet these guys for a face to face interview on Tues it might be an...

Where can I get a comprehensive reference with all of the StorageTek 9840 FSC error codes? The 9840 Operations manual is very limited in the number of codes it discusses. Also, where can I get an explanation of the full feature set on the 9840? For example, there is a feature named Data Security...