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December 28th 04 04:34 AM
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ATA Reliability: Seagate, WD, Maxtor by
_R
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...
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Estimating RAID 1 MTBF? by
ohaya
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to calculate/estimate the
overall MTBF of a RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration? I'm just looking for
a simple, "rule-of-thumb" type of calculation, assuming ideal
conditions.
I've been looking around for this, and I've seen a number of...
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Any forums out there about SAN's ?. by
Fatboy40
I was wondering if anyone here knows of a forum/bbs where people discuss
SAN's ?. I'm having trouble finding info on this subject, specifically about
EMC hardware.
Thanks.
Clive.
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VXA tape flaw by
Arthur Begun
If you are considering a VXA tape drive from exabyte (formerly ecrix)
you should be aware of a fatal flaw. Even though ads show a tape
soaking in a cup of coffee and a claim that the data is still
recoverable, the tape header is extremely fragile. If you are doing a
backup and the computer...
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Tape Backup by
[email protected]
I am looking for opinions on what a decent tape backup for a PC
workstation might be, somewhere around 40 gigs or so, speed is not the
biggest issue, mostly being reasonablly priced and around 40 gigs (give
or take a few). I'm wondering what people think the better brands are
for this type of...
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Tape Backups are NEVER Reliable - EVER by
Jolly Student
Okay Folks:
Here is one for all of you who thought that people could not get any dumber.
Yes, I am cross posting here but the recommendations for such are only in
the case where the subject matter concerns a bunch of groups. I think this
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Adaptec 2410SA SATA Raid 5 : is it a safe choice by
Toto
I intend to build a small server for my (6 Win XP computers) home LAN, to
backup my Data (and store some original documents).
Adaptec 2410SA Serial ATA Raid card seems to be a nice choice in terms of
price : you can use 4 cheap disks in Raid 5 mode to "secure" a capacity of
3. If I understood...
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Good RAID for New Desktop Machine? by
Doug White
I need to get a new desktop machine, and I'm planning on getting a card
to support RAID mirroring in case of a disk crash. My wife has a 6 month
old Dell that she bought with some brand of card & 2 drives, but Dell
didn't install the card. We discovered that the first thing the card
wants to...
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April 13th 08 12:19 AM
by CJT
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Warranty Length Not Related To Drive Life? by
Ron Reaugh
Has anyone ever heard anyone claim that the length of a HD's warranty was
simply a marketing and price point decision by the mfg and the warranty
length has nothing to do with expected drive life? Somewhere I think I
remember someone making such a claim and a bunch of trolls tried
unsuccessfully...
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August 17th 04 11:44 AM
by Mark
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Cost of storage calculator? by
[email protected]
Hi,
I am trying to come up with a calculator that lets me compute the cost
of storage per terabyte of data stored.
I have a 3 tier system (with various vendors) with a primary -
secondary - tape backup architecture
My goal is to see which vendor combinations are providing me the least
cost of...
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May 18th 06 04:48 PM
by NoSpam
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Utility to write huge files instantly??? by
mike
Windows 2000, FAT32 or NTFS.
For testing,
I want a utility to create BIG files ~1GB on storage media
quickly.
Copying a big file is not an option, too slow.
I don't care what's in the file as long
as the OS is happy that it's a "valid" file.
Needs to work thru normal OS drive letters and drivers.
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Bulkiest removable storage media? by
Tim Shoppa
What's the bulkiest removable storage media? Drums etc. don't count
because you don't often switch the drum (although they certainly could
be heavy judging by nothing but the size of the bearings). I worked
with RP06 packs and some funky optical tape reels in the past, but
those were pretty measly...
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bloody SATA connectors (electrical)! by
willbill
bloody SATA connectors (electrical)!
i've come across connection issues
with my (admittedly limited) use
of SATA drives, both data and power,
most recently power
what an aggrevation!
are others seeing this?
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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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Loses data when PC shuts down by
Maxim S. Shatskih
using this with firewire. I'm using Win 98, second edition.
Stop using Win98, it's a crappy operating system with poor history (on-the-knee
made-not-properly-designed-patch-over-the-paleolithic-MS-DOS).
Use some of the Windows NT OSes - Win2000 or WinXP.
--
Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK...
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March 6th 06 10:44 PM
by kony
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Fastest workstation storage by
.::SuperBLUE::.
Hello,
I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is
Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the
fastest i could get or is there something else, faster? Thanks
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Unimpressive performance of large MD raid by
kkkk
Hi there,
we have a big "storage" computer: dual Xeon (8 cores
total) with lots of disks partly connected to a 3ware 9650SE controller
and partly to the SATA/SAS controllers in the mobo.
The hard disks are Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB
We are using an ext3 filesystem with...
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EMC to IBM SAN LUN replication by
mackdaddy315
Hello all,
I have been asked to look into possible solutions to replicate luns
between an IBM and EMC SAN. Our production data is on an existing IBM
SAN and we have just 'aquired' an EMC. Does anyone know of a product
from either company or third party to replicate LUNS accross the...
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