I'm looking to replace some aging Quantum DLT SCSI tape drives. I'd *like* to replace them with firewire devices, but I have such an investment in the DLT media, that I don't want to start all over. Are there *any* DLT devices that have a firewire interface instead of SCSI? Thanks!

I'd like to buy a quiet, reliable hard drive for a desktop PC. Capacity, speed, and $/GB are unimportant (within reason). I get the impression that all the standard ATA-type desktop drives are complete crap, and not intended for heavy use (continuous power-on even without a lot of i/o). I looked...

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We have an Arena Premium 8600 (16-bay) Ultra160 disk array that works using an Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter in a Dell PE2600, or using a PCI Dual Channel Ultra2 SCSI Adapter in an IBM RS6000/H70, but absolutely refuses to work with a PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra 320 SCSI adapter in an...

I have a dell server that has a powervault disk storage array attached. The server is a 2600 poweredge running win2k3 server. The powervault has 12 slots of capacity with only 4 disks in place now with approx 400MB of data on the array. We are wanting to expand that by another 3 disks. If we do...

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Hello guys. Greetings from Germany. I hope you can help me. I have got an Asrock P4S55FX+ mainboard with an SIS 181 Raid controller. In the past I used a Raid-1 with two SATA IBM 160GB HDDs and my Windows 2003. It worked very well. When I removed on HDD (broken raid1), it was still possible to...

All, I am looking for a way to replicate i/o to a disk array that simulates a current symmetrix dmx in our environment. The aim of this is to enable me to take a look at the way that SRDF/A would behave if I gave it a "real" workload, of differing i/o read and write sizes (spread accross 2k, 4k,...

Hello, I am looking for an idea how to achieve asynchronous replication because company is getting paranoid about one production server that is very important for them (us). I will explain shortly what is the situation. The server(HP DL360 running Windows 2003) is using storage volume on EMC...

Hi, I am trying to figure out at what point I should be looking into some sort of ILM technology. In reading vendor case studies such as (http://www.netapp.com/library/cs/mustang.pdf), I dont see why I cant just keep adding more disks to my primary storage right now as demand increases... when...

Yeah, I said ATA. I'm using add-on ATA controllers to get up to 4 more non-Raid drives per system. I try to buy what's out there in volume cause I figure the beta testing will be done already. Unfortunately, not so for Promise ATA controllers. They don't seem to be very concerned with tossing...

Not to start any heated disputes here, but I'd like to get general feedback re reliability of the three major brands. I run a few Raid arrays...Actually Raid 0, so reliability is important. WD was the first to feature larger buffers, and many started using them as a result of the p.r. surge. I'm...

Hi everyone, Here's the deal: Although we're reasonably mature SAN users ( EMC storage, EMC (Brocade) Directors, IBM pSeries AIX servers ), attaching tape to our SAN is altogether new for us. In case you're not familiar, the 3592 uses native 4Gb fibre channel connectivity ( 2 ports - and hence...

Hello everybody. I'm trying to attach a SAN storage to Solaris 8 V210 server using Qlogic 2200 FC card. Already installed SUNWsan, SUNWqlc and SUNWqlcx together with all patches it required. I can see adapter, port, disk and LUNs via SANsurfer. But when I run "format" only local...

Dear All, I'm trying to get a dell pv120 autoloader operational on my san. I've connected it to a fc/scsi router, (a storagetek 3200 which is a badged crossroads 4100) and from there to my brocade 2800. The switch sees the router as a successfull F port and correctly identifyies it in the name...

We've gotten an Exabyte VXA autoloader to be hooked into our system for backups. It appears that after every command issued to the system, it rewinds the tape. Whether it's a write or an fsf, it's rewinding to the beginning after each operation, which is rather annoying. Is there a configuration...

Is there any Windows backup software that will boot a server on a schedule, and then take control *before Windows boots* to make an image backup of the boot device, prior to handing off control to Windows? We want to bypass any possibility of a file being locked during use while Windows is...

Can anyone please advise me on the availability of replacement leader tapes for Quantum DLT7000 drives? Jsut bought a unit off eBay and it has no leader tape, as well as a broken warranty seal. Surely not a good sign. cheers, Carl

I'm looking for some insight from people out there using iscsi. We're experimenting with it where I work, but the two solutions we've been testing so far haven't delivered great performance. We're using Windows 2k3 on some 3.x ghz dl320g3 servers, with one of the gigabit nic's connected to a...