Hello, I'd like to plan a new storage solution for a system currently in production. The system's storage is based on code which writes many files to the file system, with overall storage needs currently around 40TB and expected to reach hundreds of TBs. The average file size of the system is...

Hi, I am total clueless newbie in the huge data storage issues, but I was asked by the guy who I am working for (don't ask, it's a long story) to analyze differences between Xiotech SAN (which they use now) with possibility to switch to RedHat GFS. The storage would be used for a large...

Hi all! I've been Google'ing the net a bit, searching for a NAS that has the following specs: * 1TB+ storage available * RAID1 or RAID5 * quiet!

I'm working on building a new server to basically be the backup server for all of our 800GB or so of data. IE: Symantec BackupExec will run on this server.. communicating with remote agents on 4 other servers. Those 4 servers total 800gb of data in a full backup via gigabit ethernet. I'm still...

I would like to know which raid level is the best for Write operation. I am considering Raid 0, Raid 1 , Raid 0+1, Raid 10, Raid 3, and Raid 5. Also, are there any Raid Storage support Raid4, except NetApp? TIA

Hello, We use IDE flash-based storage in our embedded systems. For several years, our supplier has provided us with PQI DiskOnModules: http://www.pqimemory.com/documents/domdata.pdf I find their performance rather lacking. Media transfer rate

Is anyone aware of a way to limit the size of files allowed on a file system? Specifically, I don't want files to be able to grow past XGB. Thanks. ~F

Hello, We are a looking at buying a SAN. Size is barely an issue (less than 2TB initally), but we would like something extendable. We would to run important (but not big in terms of size or transactions) database (both MS SQL and Oracle) as well as perhaps Exchange on there, and replicate those...

In the beefy enterprise-level linux database installs, the ones where you need massive redundancy supplied by two SAN devices, what is the current ideal for setting them up? Software raid to mirror the luns from both sans, and use static partitions? Software raid, then LVM ontop of it? LVM to...

Is there anyone who configured an HBA failover on Windows ? What I need is a simple failover driver, not load-balancing, not a failover between 2 different HBAs. Am I the only one who needs it? My experience: it looks that Emulex driver doesn't support failover on...

I am reviewing NAS options for our office and am using any input I can find to qualify, so I appreciate any input from those that have experience here. This is a small office (75 Users), our needs are for 1TB or less on RAID 5. We are a Windows 2003 AD shop and remote control is not necessary. I...

Hello, I am evaluating Acronis True Image 7.0, have previously only used DriveImage and Ghost (2003). True Image so far looks truly impressive. However, I have 2 key questions/concerns: 1) Image verify

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...

I have a Win2K3 Server which runs SQL 2000. Attached to it are 7 LUNs. In particular three of the LUNs are seeing 900-1200ms latencys in Read and Write performance. All three of these LUNs are RAID1+0 4 spindles per LUN 73GB 15K RPM FC disks. What I've thought of doing is destroying all 3 LUNs...

Does any vendor sell a software product that will expose logical volumes on a Windows 2000 server as fibre channel targets? I'm looking for block level sharing of the logical device with other fibre channel hosts. The Windows 2000 host would act as a replacement for the head end of a...

A.Melon wrote in message ... I downloaded Acronis True Image and made a bootable CD as per their program. However, I have no idea if my CD driver is capable of booting the computer. Presumably you mean...

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 00:40:51 +0100, m0rk wrote: We have a wan of w2k servers, several locations, all varying degrees of storage on HP servers ... the main HQ currently have a 1TB array of disks that has about 100gb free currently ... They are looking at a SAN solution to give...

Does anyone know of an alternative to Microsoft's DFS? I'm looking to go beyond the limits of what DFS can do but have no idea who the other players are in this space. Thanks. ~F

Hello all. My name is Nick Selvaggio. I am a computer science student at NYIT. This semester I am taking my semester project and am mulling over idea's for the project. I have an idea which involves a SAN type architecture. I wanted to bounce the idea off of some people before trying to...

The IOPS the array can deliver is the aggregate of all the drives in the raid group less the hot spares and parity drives. Its more complicated than that of course but its a not bad rule of thumb. So 10 data drives that can each deliver 100 iops could (in theory) deliver 1000 iops when bound...