What is the minimum number of members (drives) I need in a raid 0 stripe in order to gain read/write performance advantages? Some people I've talked to say 3, others say 4. Anyone know the answer? thanks.

Hi, I have a Shuttle system. I'm looking for an external Raid 1 system using a Firewire connection preferrably. Something simple i.e. two hard drives and the cheaper the better (around £400)! Is there such a thing? I recently started reading about NAS. Although they seem to connect via a Rj45...

At times I am confused when I see ......1Mbps speed... .....1Mb memory.... .......1Mb packet size for transmition.... .......1Mb file size in storage.... ......1Mb filesize for transmition..... Please point out correctly where I have to use

Hello group, On older DLT drives there's a know issue with slow restores when the system area of the tape hasn't properly been updated. This could happen because of power loss or SCSI bus reset with the tape still in the drive. The next time such a tape was loaded, the drive couldn't use the...

hi, Can anyone recommend a fibre Channel hub which will provide failover for a W2k cluster with a Metastor E2400 and QLA2300F/66 2Gb PCI HBA's. Would a IBM Netfinity Fibre Channel Hub - 3523 or Emulex LH1005 do the job? I'm looking for something less expensive than 8 port switch. cheers

Hi I'm currently doing some benchmarking on a hard drive, and I'm using three different programs: - Sandra - Fresh Diagnose - HDTach The results I'm getting looks like this (MB/s):

Hello, I am looking for some feedback from people who may have both of these certifications... I recently passed my BCFP (143-040, v2.6/3.1/4.1, Silkwork 2250-12000 switches) exam. I will soon be preparing for my SNIA Level 2 (Practitioner) exam. I have reviewed the SNIA Exam Guidelines, and it...

Hi, See also my previous post "Alternative for NetApp F825c (for CIFS & iSCSI)" We currently have 2 Windows fileservers, a Exchange mailserver and a MS-SQL database server. Our network is all Windows (servers and workstations). We expect to grow to 6TB in 5~6 years (mail 20%, databases 5% and...

Hi all, I have a client with an ADIC library that has LTO-2 drives. I don't know how low a data rate the IBM drives can match to. HP has a handy-dandy specs sheet for their drives (imagine that) http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11739_na/11739_na.html But I can't find anything...

Hi I'm currently working on deepening my understanding on hard disk drives and file systems, and I have come accross somethine that I find hard to get any relevant hits on Google on: Record size. Now, I know it has something to do with the size of the chunck of data the OS/file system is asking...

On 23 Feb 2003 01:57:24 -0800, (mshetty) wrote: Hi, We have been asked to test a driver with multiple HBA cards... From software point of view HBAs are made by different vendors would have different drivers like qla2x00 or aic7xxx. The driver we are testing deals with sd...

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:50:29 -0400, "Bill Todd" wrote: "David A.Lethe" wrote in message ... On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:07:48 -0400, "Bill Todd" wrote:

Hi All, Anyone familiar with NetApp Filers? I'm trying to find out if NetApp Filers support some sort of management software interface, such as Microsoft's WMI (WEBM implementation) that would allow the management of file system entities (from volumes down to the file level). Thanks!

I know that Windows 2000 and 2003 server can be a iSCSI host but can you setup a Windows machine as iSCSI server? In other words can you use Windows to create some sort of SAN/NAS device that services it's disks to other Windows hosts via iSCSI? -- Thanks! Benno...

Hello, I have known NTFS to not be natively compatible with Mac OS X, Linux, and OpenBSD in the past. I have external firewire/USB drives that I would like to plug in and read from these systems. I format these external drives with FAT32 for better compatibility (although I'm not sure of the...

Just need some verification on two question and possible solutions if you have any. 1) Does the Scalar 10K support hardware cleaning for the tape drives? If so were is this configured? 2) Does the Scalar 10K support mixed operation systems sharing a single tape device in an SSO environment? If...

Hello, I want to learn about SCSI analyzers and other protocol analyzers. Meaning, I want to learn the purpose of SCSI analyzer, where is it useful, the purpose of them etc... I searched through google, but I could only find website explaining how to use a particular SCSI analyzer. I could not...

Anyone out there booting unix hosts - preferably Solaris - from a SAN? Have you integrated JumpStart or similar utility with it?

Hello, Do utilities exist to "scrub" for bad blocks/files/metadata on a Windows file system? More details: While managing my personal storage (anywhere from 10-20GB storage rignt now) and my associated backup drives, I'm finding that disk drives and/or file systems are having problems reading...

Hi everyone, I am looking for a good Procom Netforce engineer for tech support one of Our customer. Especially, I am looking for someone who has good experienced for Procom NetForce 3500 system administration and set up, Raid creation, LUN mapping, etc. We are willing to pay good money for this...