What's the best way of setting up a single filesystem of 16 terabytes (or a little less), at about 64 megabytes/second sustained or better, using Solaris? Needs to be reliable and economical, doesn't need to be blazing. Is there such a thing as a JBOD or series of JBOD's that could be attached to...

Has anyone do a benchmark of RAID5 vs RAID10? I am looking for large sequential reads and writes... Thanks in advance... Clayton

Hallo... is there an HBA capable of doing automatic failover in Linux over a multibus failover configuration (multipath) in order to avoid use of securepath,veritas devicemapper software? thank you

I am trying to think through options for a mission-critical office requiring a storage server. What are the differences and pros/cons of a computer/server vs. a freestanding NAS network accessible storage device? Assume either one will have a RAID 1 mirroring configuration.

Is there any Windows backup software that will boot a server on a schedule, and then take control *before Windows boots* to make an image backup of the boot device, prior to handing off control to Windows? We want to bypass any possibility of a file being locked during use while Windows is...

Anyone remember "Storage Computer Corporation"? They had the unforgettable stock ticker symbol SOS, owned the domain name storage.com, sold RAID-7 disk arrays (which turned out to be RAID-4 with a write cache, and got the RAB all hot and bothered), and were owned/operated by Theodore (Ted)...

Hey guys/gals, I know very little about SANs but have been asked to find information on the web about which is the better overall switch: The Brocade Silkworm 3900 or the McData 3232? All I can find are marketing blurbs and very little about the technical merits of each device. Which do you...

Hi, An L1 cache is split(I,D) or unified. Most(All?) of the time an L2 cache is unified. Are there any processors out there which use a split/unified L1 cache backed by a *unified* L2 cache? Is there any motivation in doing this? I am confused since IMHO, all the instruction opcodes ought to fit...

Hi all, I've just experienced a mystifying failure of a hard disk that was literally only one day old. It is a Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 (80gb 5400RPM SATA) that came with my new Dell laptop. I had installed Ubuntu Feisty Linux, and everything seemed to be working fine, and I even checked the...

I am a smalltime consultant with several clients having similar scenarios. Typically they have less than 100 Windows workstations and anywhere from 1 to 10 servers. Some servers are virtual hosts - just getting started in the virtual world. My idea is this: If I have up to 100 PC's, often each one...

Subject says it all! Probably need no more than 16 drive bays. Host is an HP 9000 A500 server. All the SATA controllers with redundancy I've seen have been FC controllers, and I need SCSI.

Hi All, I'm confused about intelligence disaster recovery of Veritas Backup Exec 9.x. When I create intelligence disaster recovery diskettes via wizard, it consists 2 of diskettes: disk 1 and disk 2, and computer-specific disaster recovery information (DR file). But during perform intelligence...

hello, do you know if an emulation software exists for make believe to a system that there is a library (lto2, dlt, barcode management, etc...) installed. it's for testing different storage software. thanks

Just had a dream about retrieving data already overwritten. I have no scientific background whatsoever, but wrote down these words in my journal: "In analyzing the structure present on the surface, it is abundantly clear that remnants of data -- however small -- still exist beneath the surface of...

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Hello everyone, I have been cruising this group for some time. But most of the posts that interest me in my needs are too specific to their company. So here is my problem. I hope you can help. I work for a small law firm/medical claims office/student loans and recovery of roughly 140 users....

Recently ran into the account of a guy who built his own 1.2TB RAID50-based storage array for $1600 (see URL:http://www.finnie.org/terabyte/). I really like the idea and have been thinking about following suit. Like Finnie, I want to be able to store huge amounts of DivX/Xvid files online. In...

Free Veritas VxVM/VxFS training and access on a Solaris system. I have a Solaris system with 11 disks, I'd like to, with those who agree to terms and conditions, share the learning experience. For more information, contact me. On that system, you may, learn, VxVM, VxFS.... I also offer a...

So in the past few months there have been some interesting moves towards Open Source Storage: ZFS on Solaris, and Nexenta's software appliance. Has anyone out there deployed it to where it actually does anything useful? The cost savings are phenomenal, but nothing is truly free, you pay for it one...

Hi, I am trying to figure out at what point I should be looking into some sort of ILM technology. In reading vendor case studies such as (http://www.netapp.com/library/cs/mustang.pdf), I dont see why I cant just keep adding more disks to my primary storage right now as demand increases... when...