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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 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. ...

I have PV-220S connected with Perc 3/DC to the PE 6450 server with 1GB RAM, 1xP3 700MHz CPU, running Win2k Adv. Server. PV is filled with 14 10krpm 73GB harddisks and on the backplane there are three 18GB hdds. On both channels there are RAID 5 logical disks. Performance of both logical disks are...

I recently moved our L40 from one office to an other and somewhere along the line, the STK L40 didn't agree with the move and decided that it wasn't going to communicate with one of the DLT7000 drives in the library. The library as a whole seems to be working fine and of the two DLT7000 drives in...

Earlier I had posted a message as follows: Want recommendations for external USB DVD dual layer burners. Thanks in advance for your feedback. What I am seeking is recommendations as to specific brands/models. Thanks again.

I'm getting stuck trying to figure out how to recover from a USB mass storage "error". This is for "bulk only" protocol. The root problem is that the RTOS we use is returning errors when they don't really exist and terminating transfers in the middle. I think I can fix that problem, but in...

We have an application that is experiencing I/O contention, particularly in tempdb but also in two other databases. The data is stored on mirrored PowerVault 220's, each with 10 of 14 possible disks. The PowerVaults are JBOD devices, not true SANs. The current config has four separate groups of...

Hello, As I understand,SAN most popular protocol today is Fibre Channel. Less popular are iSCSI Infiniband. Are there any other protocols apart from these for SAN ? Is this the situation currently? Regards,

Hello, On an AIX 4.3.3 server with two 6228 HBAs : fscsi0 (tapes) - PtP connection to an ADIC snc5100/Scalar1000/LTO1x6 fscsi1 (disk) - connected trough an IBM FC switch to an ESS disk array Problem is for each physical tape drive, cfgmgr creates two "rmt" devices. The NetBackup "scan" command...

I've got 4X60 GB identical drives that I'd like to use for home office RAID in an XP server box. I've looked on eBay and found a ton of cheap 2-port IDE cards that claim to support up to 4 IDE devices. I understand the RAID levels, but I don't follow how a card with 2 ports can support 4 devices....

I am using X-Windows to administer my Legato Networker 7.1.2. Prior to the server hardware upgrade (new machine), when we labelled previously labelled volume, there isn't any prompt for confirmation. With Networker re-installation, I am unable to switch off the label overwrite prompting. There...

I'm planning to use external disk drives for backup. I'm looking at the nicely packaged enclosures from Maxtor, Western Digital, and Seagate. I keep one set of backups "offsite," and this is giving me a bit of a worry. Roughly once a month, I hand-carry backup media from my PC to the "offsite"...

Just wondering if anyone has used or seen this so-called "raid alternative." They call it a "storage robot." No, I am not spamming for this company, I actually just read about them in PC Photo's enewsletter, and was wondering if anyone out there has heard anything about this storage solution, good...

About 4 years ago I bought a Maxtor Diamondmax 60GB ATA drive at CrapUSA. I didn't really need it, but was just astounded at the concept of being able to buy such a high capacity drive for a mere $300 (of course that amount will get you a much bigger drive now). My system at the time was using a...

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in America can become whatever they want. Trouble is most don't know what they want." -- Earl Nightingale What do you want? Are you sick of the...

Our AIT2 HVD drives have been among the most reliable we have used. We have used them both with differential SCSI controllers as well as HVD fibre bridges, both with great success. In our test lab, where we have two permanent test servers that have Adaptec 39160 LVD host adapters, I cannot get...

Hi, I realize that this is a kind of esoteric question, but I hope that someone here can help. We have some systems with dual-channel QLogic QLA2312 FC HBAs. These are connected to an EMC 32-port FC Switch, which is in turn connected to an EMC Clariion CX700 SAN. Once we get everything...

Can someone tell me what this buzzword^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfeature of the Western Digital "RAID Edition" disk drives actually is? -- Thor Lancelot Simon But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common objects that he could...

Hi, i'm gonna buy a new tape 'cause the dlt 40/80 i'm using now is not enough any more and i have to choose between sdlt and lto2. Simply looking at the specs i'd go with lto2, but i'd like to know if there are people that used both standards who can post their impressions. Looking at lto2 drives...