Every few months I go through the same routine - take my CD collection and see if time or dust got the better of it. I was wondering about CD stamping machines - would that be a better backup over a Tape? Would a CD stamping machine be flexible and cost effective? I understand a CD stamper would...

Is there any significant difference in quality between different brands of LTO-3 tape media? The prices only seem to vary 5-10%, but when you're buying 100 tapes, that can be quite a few bucks. Anyone know from experience which brands are good or bad, or know of any good sites for reference? ...

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...

I'm looking for an external HDD that I can use for backing up my desktop. I'm thinking about going with an external SATA II drive/enclosure. That way I can upgrade to a bigger disk as needed, and I'd get 3Gps throughput. I'm relatively new to SATA and hope I can field some questions here... *...

Our company needs to expand storage capacity, for various reasons. Users need more harddrive space, we need more harddrive space, we need databases to have access to lots of harddrive space... etc. SAN seems to be the solution to the problems, so I have been researching iSCSI. I'll start off by...

I am trying to settle an argument at the office and I am hoping that one of you can answer the question for me. It is fairly basic as I am new to this whole SAN thing. Suppose that I have two windows servers, each connected to a sepearte LUN on an MSA1000 (each server can see his LUN but not the...

Hello I need a little direction. I have a simple peer to peer network that has ~10 workstations. All workstations are windows xp pro. We run a practice management software that is an access database. The issue is that we require fairly high storage demands for this small network. We store several...

What is the maximum drive size that can be used? I want to use 8X400GB SATA. Will I get 2.8TB effective on RAID5?

I am looking for a simple program to archive and search for filenames in my backup CDs. I have tried http://medialibrary.sourceforge.net/ and here are the pros: - it is open source - being java based it works on my win pc but I can hope it will work also on other system - it stores data on an open...

Hello, I plan to improve backup/storage system in my company's environment. We have over 20 dell servers, including blade 1855, a scsi PV-220S connected to one of them and PV-130T tape library for backup (LAN backup). We use arcserve v.9 . Now I want to create central storage for about 4-10+ server...

We are facing a serious problem with our Scalar 100. Since more than one year we use home-made barcode labels: they worked perfectly until one week ago. Then few days ago we had to add 10 new tapes to the library... and half of them were not even detected by the library: the slots looked empty. We...

Does anyone know if the CX300 requires the Supplemental Power Supply? The documentation seems to imply that you must have the SPS in order to do write caching. I understand it provides battery-backed power for cache destaging, but our datacenter is fully UPS protected so I don't want to waste...

I have set up legato networker clients and servers 7.1.2. Server is solaris, clients are windows. 2 of our clients are on another subnet from the server, they backup ok, but when I run the networker user program on both these clients to restore data, they cant find the server, I get the...

I posted a little while ago concerning failover solutions for a Windows 2000 server. Unfortunately, budget limitations prohibit the solutions recommended. So....here's our situation now....have a 2000 member server that needs to be replicated to a seperate server (no shared storage...just local...

Hi Everyone, Is anyone aware of any good RAID software to set up an off shelf storage solution for around 2 -3 TB of space ( probably by stacking 10 of the 250 GB hard drives set up at RAID level 5 ). I can use an Intel server board and a Intel RAID controller card but aint sure of how to manage...

Researchers at Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) use HPC as part of a comprehensive research program to better predict flutter and limit cycle oscillations for modern aircraft, understand the impact of turbulent flow on jet engines, and develop computational...

Hi all! I like to connect 2 _independent_ disks to aha2120 to make a diskdump from harddisk1 to harddisk3. For this action I obviously have to attach each disk to an individual array to make these disks visible to any os. So, when I attached 2 disks (hd1 and hd2) to 2 arrays and then replace...

I'm looking for a cheap way to have more than one computer share read-only access to fibre channel storage under Windows 2000. I'm using Compaq fibre channel arrays for the hardware, and those are fine for low-end use, but they don't have any option internally to give read-only access. A host is...

Ok lets try again...This is the first time I am configuring a SAN primarily for consolidating our backups. I have a 2T (8 disks of 250G) SATA-RAID SAN. Now what would be the ideal disk configuration for this server. At this point I am lloking at backing up close to 25G (could double in next 4-6...

Is flash memory (like in SD,CF,SMC,etc. cards) magnetic? How close to a magnetic source would it have to get to be damaged. This hasn't happened to me yet personally, but what if it's laying on the floor and somebody vacuums right next to it. That'd be a 10 amp motor right next to it. What about...