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I was looking at the formatted capacity of one vendor's disks, and noticed that the SATA gives up a lot more space for the "formatted capacity". For example: 300GB FC = 288GB formatted, 320GB SATA = 274GB formatted. Do SATA disks normally give up more space for formatted capacity? If so,...

Hello, first time posting to this group. Forgive me if I'm in the wrong area. :) We got a couple of Buffalo Terrastations for our network about 9 months ago. Just wanted to let everyone know a couple of things about this device and possibly open up a general discussion about the Terrastation's...

I'm restoring from a Overland Neo 2000 library with a HP LTO-3 drive in it to a RAID array. Backups run fine and quick but when I do a restore it starts out fine and then after a few Gig (roughly 10) it slows to a crawl. File sizes vary but I've seen it happen 50 MB files as well as tiny files...

Car PCs, mini PCs run Linux and windowsXP A mini pc, car pc manufacturer located in China is shipping an extensive line of Pentium-based mini PC that run Linux and WindowsXP. The SD-Omega Mini PC line comprises 44 variations, include passively cooled and fanless models targeting car PCs andHTPCs...

Seeking recommendations for a External Rackmountable 8-bay or 12-bay Hot-swap SATA drive JBOD enclousre without a backplane. An enclosure that can be connected to a SATA RAID card. Infiniband/multilane support desired but not required. Any recommendations?

Hello togehter, our company has sold 3 IBM DS-300 with dual-controler. We have 3 HBA-Cards for iSCSI Connection. The DS300 have a connection on - all eth2 port with a own VLAN - all eth3 port with a own VLAN - all management port to the public VLAN THE HBA-cards are inside the VLNA for eth2/3

My company has an Overland Storage LoaderXpress DTL-LXLS tape library. Specifically, it is an LXL4110. the "Drive Fault" light is on, and when I go into the Status Menu, then DLT 1 menu, every item displays "status in flux". I have visited the Overland website, and searched their...

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to convert a DLT based Adic scalar 100 tape library to SDLT or LTO? At least with SDLT the magazines should be the same since tapes have same form factor, so theoreticaly it could be possible to reflash firmware + replace drive module...? Kind Regards

I'm trying to update our back up rotation scheme, and I don't see a ready way to do it. I'd like to create a full back up of our company data once per month, and perform incremental / differential backups each day after. Problem is, each of these back ups needs to be performed on a separate...

hi - wonder if you can help - using netbackup 6, and need to know how to expire images / media before their retention time is up. There a couple of bpcommands to use - not sure which is the correct one is looking for bp command to use, and correct syntax thks - stuart.

Hi, We have a Snap Server 2200, and would like to generate a list for the files owned by one particular account. Is anyone aware of an extension which will allow us to do this. The Snap Server runs in a Native Win2k3 environment. Thanks.

Hi I need to find information about a selection of network attached storage devices which are rack-mountable and affordable. So far I've found QNAS (http://www.pixelution.co.uk/systems/system_qnas.htm). Does anyone know of any other NAS devices which are in the price range £1000 - £5000.

How do I improve the file create performance on a flash memory disk? I am running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1. After getting disappointing results with the default Policy of "Optimize for quick removal" I used Device Manager on the "Policies" tab to change to "Optimize for...

Hi guys, I am finding that reading the raw data off an SD in my embedded, that the boot sector is not actually at address 0, but differs from card to card (ie. my 64 MB has the boot sector at 4E00, and my 128 MB at C600). Everything else before this is read as 0's. I am not using any of the...

I'm looking for some suggestions for a home NAS. I have many digital photos and video that I need to back-up. I've come accorss the Infrant, Buffalo TerraStation and the Yellow Machine. Any thoughts/input on these products? Any other ones that I should consider? Also, I'm not opposed to...

We recently replaced a NetApp Filer with an EMC Celerra with the intention that the NetApp is decommissioned asap (within 1 month). The NetApp is backed up via NDMP with NetBackup 5.1 and we retain monthly and annual tapes. The problem is that we may need to restore from the monthly and...

I'm in the market for a SATA RAID controller. How does Highpoint's 8-port hardware raid PCI-X solution (RocketRaid 2220) compare with Promise's 8-port hardware-assisted raid PCI-X solution (Fastrack SX8300), performance-wise? I'm leaning towards the former however the lack of on-board memory cache...

Hello, I'm considering buying a new enterprise storage system. I know there are a lot of factors to be considered, and most of them are reviewed. But one of the factors which is not clear yet is the individual disk drive failure rate. It may not be important as long as the system is protected by...

Hello all, The old annoying question comes back again. Due to decisions out of the hands of the technical people I am facing the need to migrate san storage from one storage vendor (STK) to another (EMC or Netapp or even something else) The question here is whether you are familiar with some...