Dear All, I need to develop a hardware appliance that will be deployed in the data path between clients and the storage device (for eg. harddisk). This hardware box should be able to understand the native storage protocol (eg. SCSI) over which it is travelling , get the data, perform some...

I've been researching NAS options for an office environment comprised of about 15 users and a mix of desktop and server operating systems. So far, I've looked at the following: -Dell, IBM and HP offerings (an "appliance" solution based on a 64-bit CPU, 2GB RAM, and Windows Storage Server 2003...

We have considered to redeploy FastT500 storage. According to the data sheet, it claimed that it had 383MB/sec data access. I just wonder what is the performance running in real world. Can anyone share your experience about FastT500 performance. Thanks

Hi, I'm quite of a hardware noob, but guess what, I'll need to buy a server for our small company. Purpose is mainly development/testing database applications and we need about 300gb live storage plus room for some backups. Since these are not business critical applications and the machines are...

We're looking to add storage for archive, backup to disk, and any other application where data is infrequently accessed. The big three storage vendors are certainly willing to accommodate, but at a higher price than we're currently looking to pay. We're not looking for a DYI solution, we need...

I'm looking to a firewall from ATA hard drives over to booting from a CompactFlash, and then writing logs and other real-time files to a separate hard drive. I have seen many small (2 inch by 2 inch) boards that will convert ATA to CF interfaces, sometimes for two CF cards on one board. Has...

who knows literature on power consumption of main memory chips: idling, and per access cycle, and depending on the memory type ? Rainier

I'm testing a 9 TB xfs file system on a X86_64 Linux system and it is all working fine except that I just tried (on a whim) to run xfs_check on it and it gave me the message "out of memory". I looked into it a bit and saw that I should use xfs_check64. I did this and it ran for a while and...

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 want to give SNIA (S10-100) exam and wanted to know if there is any book or any cirriculum or the exam topics available for the same. Plase revert if anybody have it .. thanks in advance -V

Sorry if this is a silly, trivial question... but I'm losing it trying to figure this out... Ok, I'm an Oracle DBA and I just inherited a 10g RAC system built on Oracle ASM built on raw devices built from an EMC Clariion array (CX-500). The person who set the storage/server up is no longer...

Hi, I'm trying to really understand Content-addressable storage. What I'm still unclear with is the actual reason behind the system. How is such a system better than location-addressable storage, with files stored along with a checksum to control integrity? I'm sure it is superior, I'm just...

Hi, I am writing a software in C for scsi tape maintenance. I need to get tape information like vendor, product id, revision number , serial number. I am able to get all these except serial number using INQUIRY scsi command . I tried INQUIRY command with EVPD bit set in CDB and page code as 80...

OK, fairly new to this stuff, can someone clarify exactly what the deal is with snapview, sessions and snapshots and when to start each of them What i first thought was you could take a snapshot and that would be it, but i believe you need to create a session first, is this correct And how would...

I'm interested to know if anyone has a Netgear SC101 and has made any modifications to keep the drives cooler? thx :o)

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Dear Experts, I would like to invite you to take part of my survey to share your expertise on the storage usage for enterprise applications. This is an educational survey for non-profit purposes, and it will be a part of my Master's dissertation. The following survey contains 14 questions, and...

I am wondering if anyone has contracted with Unisys via EMC via Darwin Partners for a presales Architect position in the past. This position I am looking at is for the Southeast US, work from home (presently do and have no problem with that), 50% travel across the Southeast, etc. I am intersted in...

We are migrating shared files off of a Windows domain controller to a discrete file server, and I'm thinking through what would be the best design for that new server. Given that 64 bit operating systems are now here, I'm thinking we do not need to spend much on fast drives, but we...

Hi, We are looking for a suitable candidate for the following position. SAN Architect Location: Bay Area, CA Duration: 6 months+ Rate : market Required Skills: