Who besides Dell is selling a private label version of the EMC CX series? If you don't want support from EMC, will equipment from these different vendors interoperate? -- Will Internet: westes at earthbroadcast.com

I have been a long time fan of the Compaq RA4100 RAID enclosure. They cost next to nothing, and they do a full RAID 1+0 on up to 14 SCSI 15K hotswap drives. To make things even nicer, they work with off the shelf SCSI 80 pin drives that are almost any manufacturer and model. A common use...

I'm looking to a firewall from ATA hard drives over to booting from a CompactFlash, and then writing logs and other real-time files to a separate hard drive. I have seen many small (2 inch by 2 inch) boards that will convert ATA to CF interfaces, sometimes for two CF cards on one board. Has...

I am trying to upgrade an IBM LTO2 tape drive from a firmware revision in the 3000 series to 53Y3 using the IBM LTO-TDX tool under Windows. First, is this utility still IBM's state of the art for firmware upgrades? The UI and error checking look to be about 1987 quality software. ...

Does Seagate (or any third party) distribute a bootable ISO that will look at all SATA and SCSI drives in a system, then upgrade the drive BIOS if a newer version is available? -- Will

I have a Windows 2003 Server 64-bit that we need to backup to a locally attached tape library. The library we are using is Overland Neo 2000 ( a GREAT product by the way ) and it apparently has no Removable Storage Driver, so we cannot use the native Windows backup application. I am looking...

I'm looking for a few recommendations for NetApp systems I can buy on the cheap that would give a reasonable introduction to the NetApp feature set, particularly for things like snapshots. I'm okay with something that is older technology and maybe a full release out of the current release. ...

I hope this is not too mundane a question for this group, but I need to upgrade an AIT-3 tape drive with 0209 firmware and obtained from the tape library vendor the firmware file that ends with .GBF. Going to the Sony web site, none of the utilities for Windows appear to take files that end...

Has anyone gotten Backup Exec 9.1 to backup correctly to LTO3 drives and media? Does Veritas even have a 9.1 driver of its own for LTO3? We have a test lab installation we are checking out LTO3 drives on, and they backup to LTO2 media without a problem, but in every case we try to backup to...

Does anyone have feedback on the HP EML 103 tape library, comparing it for features and reliability against an ADIC i2000 or Overland Neo 8000? I heard the EML is an OEM Quantum library, and I have never much liked the reliability of Quantum libraries. -- Will

I'm looking for someone who has a lot of hands-on time using the ADIC i2000 library in a SAN environment, preferably EMC, and I'm willing to hire them as a consultant. If anyone has that background please contact me by e-mail. -- Will

On a tape library we use, we are getting an FSC1 code of 4822 for an IBM LTO2 tape drive. What does this code indicate? Where does IBM document all of the four digit error codes for the LTO2 tape drive? -- Will

Does anyone make a rackmountable drive array that is cheap and uses hotswap Serial ATA drives? I know about the Adaptec 2410SA , but does anyone make a larger external enclosure that can hold 10+ SATA drives? I am interested in RAID enclosures as well, but I would be happy with a JBOD...

In theory, a PCI card (not PCI-X, and not PCI Express) that runs on a PCI 64-bit bus at 66 MHz should be capable of driving 512 MB per second. I know in the real world that is fantasy. There are usually bottlenecks everywhere, such as in the I/O chipset or achitecture of the motherboard, as...

For DLT Type IV tape, we have a table published by Quantum that shows the number of soft errors on each tape that would be considered each of the following quality levels: Exceptional Good Normal High Error Quantum publishes a table with these quality levels for soft read errors and

I'm looking for a NAS solution that can power drives off and on based on when they are required. The application in question is a disk to disk backup (backup to the NAS) and the amount of storage is 30 TB growing to 120 TB. The end user wants to be able to save monthly operation costs...

How well would the USB 2.0 protocol scale to multiple storage arrays? If you had four RAID cabinets, each with 3 TB of IDE RAID, that uplinked by USB 2.0 to a host, would the simultaneous use of the different arrays have performance problems using USB 2.0 as the protocol / data bus? I'm...

Has anyone been successful in using any flavor of AIT tape drive under USB, mapped through IDE? I know Sony makes an IDE version of the drive, and it's common these days to find cases that will map IDE/EIDE hard drives into USB 2.0. I assume those same casese could map an AIT IDE drive to the...

I've noticed on almost all Scalar 100 and Dell 136T tape libraries running with IBM LTO2 drives, that you will occasionally get a flashing A error code. After a lot of research with ADIC on this problem, we were told that in most cases this is caused by a drive recalibration, and it is normal...

I'm getting a strange result with an Acronis V10 boot disk that I would like help understanding. I have a 68 GB NTFS primary partition that I am copying to an identical drive. The result after copying shows two differences: 1) The space free on the destination drive shows 10GB free, whereas...