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Comparisons of NAS/SAN products by [email protected]
Does anyone know where to find a comparison of all the NAS/SAN products out there EMC-NetApp-Isolon_Exanet-ONStor-3Par..... ? Thanks for the help
April 13th 07 07:27 PM
by Nik Simpson Go to last post
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HP MSA1000 - Automatic Expansion? by Barule Technologies
Hi. I have an HP MSA1000 with 9 drives. Eight of the physical drives are configured across 4 logical drives, with the last physical drive reserved as an online spare. I installed three additional drives into the SAN Chassis last night. Nothing more. When I came in this morning to expand some of...
April 12th 07 03:17 PM
by Barule Technologies Go to last post
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RAM right or wrong? by Tizano
I've always understood that hard disc sizes get exaggerated by sellers dividing by 1000 instead of 1024. I also understand about usable disc space being less than quoted sizes due to sectorisation. But I've never come across this before.. My new Dell laptop was sold as having 1024MB RAM. Both...
April 12th 07 01:38 PM
by Tizano Go to last post
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Bootable ISO with Seagate Drive Firmware? by Will
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
April 9th 07 12:35 AM
by Will Go to last post
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NDMP considerations by [email protected]
Hi Friends, I have a task of consolidating some of our datacenters. When done, I would have accumilated about 1 peta byte of data on our brand new netapp filers. While I am in our scoping out phase, I would like to know what considerations I should take for backing up (full and...
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April 6th 07 11:33 PM
by Faeandar Go to last post
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Permormance comparison between iSCSI or CIFS by Raju Mahala
One of the windows application needs storage for its own database storage which may be hosted on CIFS share or iSCSI disk. At storage end I have NetApp storage so I want to know what is better between CIFS share or iSCSI disk on performance basis. Raju
April 6th 07 10:00 PM
by Faeandar Go to last post
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Raid0 or Raid5 for network to disk backup (Gigabit)? by willbill
markm75 wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on which is going to give me better write speeds.. I know raid0 should be much better and if i combine it with raid1, redundant.. But I'm assuming when I backup my servers to (this backup server) across the gigabit network, my write speeds would...
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April 5th 07 10:18 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Adaptec 2810SA Device Failure by [email protected]
I hope someone can help. Got 1T on the line and although it is not irreplaceable, would hate to have to reload. I have a raid 5 that has 5 "optimal" drives and all appear to be working (no symbols on the drive). But the Logical device has a big red dot with a black x that says "failed". The...
April 5th 07 04:52 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Re-Use DLT4000 drive from Autoloader? by Rudolf Pitzler
Hi,, we just replaced 2 Overland Express Autoloaders by a new Quantum LTO loader, and now I'd like to re-use one of their internal DLT4000 drives as a replacement for an even older Quantum standalone DLT4000. The drives look fairly identical case-wise (cooling air intakes, front flaps etc) apart...
April 4th 07 11:21 AM
by Rudolf Pitzler Go to last post
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Online Storage Poser by [email protected]
Hi If this is the wrong group, apologies, and please recommend a better group for it. My company has an online custom built Active Server Pages CRM system. It tracks all our clients, communications, and deals - via user input. We also store documents relating to those clients online. However, as...
April 3rd 07 02:49 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Zone Creation - Advice by Scooty
Hi I am looking at implementing Zoning in my IBM Fast Storage SAN First question is, are there any implications in simply creating the zones and applying the zone config but with no HBAs or Storage Controllers added? Will this affect the current config? I am looking at using the Single HBA Zoning...
April 2nd 07 11:42 AM
by Jeffrey Bird Go to last post
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Trunking between two SAN-Switches? by Ewald Jenisch
Hi, We're currently running a couple of SAN-Switches in a HP C-Class Blade interconnected to our central switches (Brocade) with redundant links. Though the central SAN-Switch does have a trunking license the Blade-Switches don't have one (yet). My questions: o) Is a trunking license really...
April 2nd 07 10:15 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Troubleshooting SANs by [email protected]
I work for a consulting firm, and have begun to do troubleshooting on small SANs, mostly HP MSA1500cs based. Many times the problem the customer is talking about is some vague intermittent slowness issue or something like that. In cases like this, my troubleshooting goes something like this: 1. ...
April 2nd 07 10:07 AM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Solaris sd driver and lpfc by [email protected]
Just a quick question. I recall in years past that if sd.conf was pre- populated with entries that a boot time delay penalty would occur which was supposed to be something like 3 seconds per lun for luns that really weren't available. My question is does solaris and the sd driver still behave this...
April 1st 07 11:03 PM
by Dirk Munk Go to last post
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SSD retrofit in an old laptop? by Jonathan Berry
How close are we to an 8 GB IDE 2.5" form factor SSD hard-drive replacement for an old laptop or notebook computer, allowing it to become a totally silent word processor / email / whatever, with long battery life? Target price: $150 (US) or less. -- Jonathan Berry
April 1st 07 04:25 AM
by Bill Todd Go to last post
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SCSI bus speed downshifted by Hans Jørgen Jakobsen
I am having some messages in the log that I dont like: Mar 29 13:07:12 store04 kernel: ciss1: *** SCSI bus speed downshifted, SCSI port 1 Mar 29 13:07:13 store04 kernel: ciss1: *** SCSI bus speed downshifted, SCSI port 1 Mar 29 13:08:40 store04 kernel: ciss1: *** SCSI bus speed downshifted, SCSI...
March 29th 07 09:09 PM
by Hans Jørgen Jakobsen Go to last post
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building nas server for home network by [email protected]
Hi, I'm in need for (budget) storage at home. After doing a little research i decided to build my own NAS server. I've got an "old" AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with one GB of ram, so that will be more than sufficient i guess. I've been thinking of doing the following, but i wonder if it's the best way...
March 28th 07 08:50 PM
by Knut Go to last post
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partition a HD with files on it .:NEED HELP:. by devin1100[_2_]
Hi guys I have a bit of a problem I have a 300 gig harddrive. It has a 288 gig partiton that has 158 gigs free. I was wondering if there was a way to partition some of that free space into another partition without formating or losing my files.I have vista on the other 12 gigs of this HD and win xp...
March 27th 07 10:48 PM
by [email protected] Go to last post
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Rackmount RAID With Consistent 20 MB/sec+ Average Read and Write Speeds? by Will
What low end fibre channel rackmount RAID arrays will give me a consistent 20 MB / second average read and write speed with a reasonable number of 15K RPM SCSI drives in a RAID 5 or RAID 6 configuration? I've been using Compaq RA4x000 arrays as a cheap disk source for applications that do not...
March 27th 07 05:54 AM
by Maurice Volaski Go to last post
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Poor performance with Seagate ST3500630AS part number 9BJ146-308 by Mark F
Has anyone had problems with performance of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 Gbytes ST3500630AS P/N 9BJ146-308 ? I have no problems with the earlier revisions of the drive, such as P/N 9BJ146-305, but the latest revision, which is the -308 revision, which has firmware 3.AAK runs at a maximum...
March 26th 07 07:19 PM
by Mark F Go to last post
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