Hello I've just bought a Maxtor diamondmax plus 9, 250GB, SATA/150, HDD and want to use it for storage and don't really have much of a clue how to set it up. This is my set up now if this helps Primary IDE connector........80GB Maxtor ATA/133 HDD Secondary IDE connector.. CD/RW with DVD Drive...

I made a choice recently and that choice cost me more than I wanted it to. Now I need to understand WHY I made the choice. I configured my SQL Server database in such a way that the transaction logs are placed on a separate RAID 1 volume. I've scoured the SQL newsgroup and I think I understand the...

On a modern server system (mid-range HP server with HP Smart Array 640x 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X controller and 15.000rpm drives) will the read performance still increase with the number of drives used? Is there a "sweet spot" of the number of drives to be used? Or do other factors come in play on...

I have a problem with two hd Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160gb ata/133 in raid 0 configuration. I have an Asus P4C800-E De luxe motherboard with the Promise PDC20378 controller. All is gone ok for six months then, last evening at the boot I had a message that told me that one of the two disks was off...

Hello all, Which of the two following architectures would you choose for a high-perf NFS server in a cluster env. Most of our data ( 80% ) is small ( 64 kb ) files. Reads and Writes are similar and mostly random in natu Architecture 1: Tyan 2882 2xOpteron 246

Hi, I'm building a new system with 4 hard drives and i have to chose between a raid 0+1 or a raid 5 setup. This is for home use which means i don't care if the system goes down in the case of a hard drive failure but i want at least minimal data security so i ruled out raid 0. I'd say that...

How feesible would it be to start a storage consulting company this day an age, I know the consulting arena is pretty much dominated by the big consulting firms such as IBM,Accenture,KPMG etc.. but how is the market for smaller storage consulting firms especially in the FCIP/SAN arena? I'm also...

Is it true that Raid levels like 1, 1+0, 3, 4 verify on the fly that both the data write and the ecc write match while levels like raid 5 don't (with few exceptions on the very high end)? Is this dependant rather on make & model? TIA

I'm still kinda new to SCSI, but I have a question regarding the bandwidth of SCSI vs SATA. U320 SCSI has a bandwidth per channel of 320 MB/s correct? Where you can have up to 16 drives, so the bandwidth would be split between channels. SATA has a bandwidth of 150 MB/s per channel, meaning if...

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Hi, Could someone briefly talk about the pros/cons of having all blade servers boot to a SAN as opposed to containing their own hard drives? I imagine the scenario would look something like this: A SAN contains 14 drives. One huge RAID 5 partition is created. Somehow, logical drives are created...

Hello all, Since HP isn't really helpfull in putting real interesting features, tips, tricks and tools on their website i've decided to setup one of my own. If you are using HP StorageWorks equipment, wether it's hardware or sofware, and have good tips trick and all of the above don't...

Can I use the U320 disk like Seagate Cheetah with LVD 160 controller (Adaptec 29160)? Or will I need the new controller and cable for the U320 disk? For now, this controller works fine with IBM UltraStar DDYS-T18350M disk. -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

HOW TO TURN SIX DOLLARS INTO SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS: READING THIS COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE! IT DOES WORK! I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little : while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you...

For DLT Type IV tape, we have a table published by Quantum that shows the number of soft errors on each tape that would be considered each of the following quality levels: Exceptional Good Normal High Error Quantum publishes a table with these quality levels for soft read errors and

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Does anyone make a rackmountable drive array that is cheap and uses hotswap Serial ATA drives? I know about the Adaptec 2410SA , but does anyone make a larger external enclosure that can hold 10+ SATA drives? I am interested in RAID enclosures as well, but I would be happy with a JBOD...

Stealth Start Up NAS appliance company with a clever way to scale NAS storage to deal with data migration and global name space issue is looking for NAS admins for a Focus Group in Portola Valley on April 5th. Reply to this email with your relevant experience. Ideal background for participants...

I've been having trouble with my Promise ATA controllers (known BIOS issues that Promise apparently doesn't want to fix), so I'm looking for a replacement. I was originally looking at Adaptec's model 1233, but haven't been able to find it locally. Someone recommended "silicon image" but I haven't...