NewerTech make a product named Voyager Q to interface SATA drives to a host by USB, Firewire, or eSATA. This is sometimes called a "drive toaster" because of the way you can mount a drive vertically into the enclosure without the need for any tray. Does anyone make something similar for...

How could I backup windows XP so that I could restore it to the exact settings I have in place without having to backup the entire drive? Thanks

Just when I needed something I'm happily surprised to find a product that offers true bullet-proof backups without the anxieties or questionable restore issues that most current tools leave you with,anyway...reading of my favorite pc-info web sites Toms and Xbit labs both of whom rave about Radix...

hi everyone, Am presenlty Testing the I/o performance on the new CX-500 San From Emc And Hba From Emulex,The LUn Size is 1 TB and when doing the Testing with SQlIO Tool with a I/o block size-8 i get 39.3 MB/sec for Random write requestes but when doing the same with Random Read requests i get...

Hi, I thought maybe it was about time I implemented some kind of backup strategy for all my personal files at home. I have a bundle of data cd's and was just wondering what methods other people have adopted in order to insure against future data loss. How would I go about creating an exact copy...

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...

We've got a rumor running around in our shop that EMC, and especially with their CLARiiON product, that they lock customers out of the system so that only EMC Support reps can perform what I would consider standard debugging procedures. I mean stuff like determinging if a particular disk in the...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows why RAID configurations top out at a certain number of physical disks. For instance, every controller I've looked at only supports up to 16 physical drives in a RAID 10 array, or up to 128 in a RAID 50 array, and I don't see any reason why you can't have...

We got 2 MS Win 2003 Servers with RAID5 on a GIG-E Port / GIGE Switch. Its taking on average 6 Min to move 1 GB of File betwen servers. I am looking at the network utliszation and its very low, so the issue might be wiht the disks, how do i narrow down this issue ? Thanks Jay

Any Exabyte DLT robot experts out there? I am having a problem with our Exabyte 230D. It does not push the tape all the way into the drives. The way that it is supposed to work is that it places the tape about 3/4 of the way into the drive, then the grippers release, it backs off a couple of cm,...

Hi World, We are architecting a SAN infrastructure and looking to purchase SAN storage and Switches. WE have nailed down the storage that we are looking to buy. It is a Hitachi 9530 . We are not sure which switch we want to buy though, we are looking at either two brocade 3250 8 port switches or...

Hi, See also my previous post "Alternative for NetApp F825c (for CIFS & iSCSI)" We currently have 2 Windows fileservers, a Exchange mailserver and a MS-SQL database server. Our network is all Windows (servers and workstations). We expect to grow to 6TB in 5~6 years (mail 20%, databases 5% and...

Hello, Do utilities exist to "scrub" for bad blocks/files/metadata on a Windows file system? More details: While managing my personal storage (anywhere from 10-20GB storage rignt now) and my associated backup drives, I'm finding that disk drives and/or file systems are having problems reading...

I'm not sure if this is appropriate for this group or not. I know there are DVDR groups, but they mostly seem to be filled with posts like "Does anybody have a crack for program?" Anyway, I was going to make a "rescue" DVD of a system and I noticed that the DVD+RW had a scratch on it. I was...

Hi, I would like to be able to manually "snapshot" my NTFS and FAT32 file systems (mostly on WinXP, but other Windows as well as Linux platforms) in an incremental fashion for backup purposes. Any solutions/ideas...other then going to Veritas and other enterprise-pricy solutions? I am looking...

Hi Guys I have recently been given eight 250GB SATA MaxLine Plus II hard drives. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any storage server configurations for use as a file/storage server on my LAN? Possibly RAID etc? Many thanks Phil

My company is considering the purchase of an EMC Clariion unit for our OnDemand system. Has anybody implemented one recently (in the last year) and do you have success or failure stories? Thanks, John

Has anyone out there used really big and fast solid state storage. I'm working on a project where we'd like to be able to store at 65 MBps and retrieve at about 80 MBps simultaneously for about 10 minutes. We'd like to use Linux and plan on using Fiber Channel. Anyone have any insights in this...

Hi, I have a Brocade 2050, and I need to learn how to use their Fabric OS. But I cant find any good information. Does anyone know of a good book or even some documentation pdfs on the subject which I could download? Thanx 1 million! JG

I am interested in our thoughts and comments on a raid system that would be used for storing archival data. Requirements: - maximum capacity - minimum dollars (but not cheap, as in poor quality) - minimal performance need (the data mostly just sits there) - must provide "phone home" capability to...