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...

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...

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

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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'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...

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...

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

Hello everybody. I want to write a script to connect on a switch and get information as switchshow and portshow. In tne past, I use expect to connect and get information in a file. Is there any other way ? Thanks in advance Gilles

Hi, I've a problem with my Legato Networker 7.3.2 installation. When I try to start the Networker Management Console, the programm asks me for username password.. this works..and username/password will be accepted but then when the Console starts I can see on the left side my Backupserver (Host)...

Right now I have a 200 gig western digital as my main hard drive. It has an 8 mb buffer I think. And its IDE. The best I can find in my research is that the transfer rate for IDE is 16 Mbs. And that SATA is like 3 gigs a second. Is that right, or am I looking at the wrong things. And if this is so,...