Lets say I have 4 - 200 GB drives on my Win 2003 server (C,D,E,F), I want to combine all 4 of them so I can have a C drive that is 800 GB. I can do NTSF mounts, but then i need to have sub directories, I just want one big volume. I don't want to use any RAID card to create a RAID array at this...

The subject line may be a bit stupid but I am looking to setup a system where we have a requirment that we have a single view into a 32 TB storage system (think of this as a one big C drive). Right now we got 6 servers each with around 5 TB of storage, but to access them we need to mount each...

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

I have an option to buy a HDS 9900, model 9960. No HD but has 2 FC cards and 1 GB or RAM I belive. Does any one know a ball park price for this unit Jay

Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I have a basic question which may pertain to any network drive of this type... My home wirless network is an encrypted one (WEP). We have 4 computers that access it athrough a Linksys wireless router and I have WEP encryption on this network and...

Hello, I've noticed on both Windows 2000 and 2003 servers that the initial scanning of a single external enterprise storage device that is configured to display many LUNs (anywhere from 16-254 LUNs per port) can take an extremely long time. If Disk Management is open, you'll see the individual...

I was considering switching from IDE to SCSI to improve disk performance on a small Windows box running IMAP. Would switching from a Maxtor IDE (DiamondMAX) to a wide SCSI disk @ 10K on Utra160 drastically improve the time IMAP takes to fetch say, 2000 messages? (present IDE filesystem is NTFS +...

I am trying to find out how to do something that does not make much sense to me. I have spoken to a few people who say they have taken multiple servers (1u in this case) and striped the drives on those 1u servers so that all servers in the group were seeing all data on all servers. Does this make...

Hello, When we try to restore files with networker user, it takes very long to browse for the necessary file. If there are a lot of files in a directory it takes minutes before Networker User shows the files. We don't see any load on the server ( Windows 2000 Server, ) We already tried...

Hi, I'm hoping someone here has some El Torito experience. I'm using mkisofs to burn a bootable CDROM of the colorForth operating system as if it were a 1.44MB floppy. I could probably get it to work by setting -boot-load-size to the full image, but for various reasons I'd like to avoid that, and...

At times I am confused when I see ......1Mbps speed... .....1Mb memory.... .......1Mb packet size for transmition.... .......1Mb file size in storage.... ......1Mb filesize for transmition..... Please point out correctly where I have to use

Hello, I have an old EMC DS-16B and i want to reset the configuration to have a default password in order to reconfigure it ? I have tried several times the from panel "Reset to Default" but the admin password does seems to be set to the default value as defined in the documentation. Any idea ?

Hello, I have an old DS-16B and i want to reset its configuration to defaults to have the default password as defined in the documentation. I have tried several times the front panel "Reset to defaults" but the password doesn't seem to be the default one. Any idea to reset it ?

I need to expand a couple of LUNs and am seeking advice regarding how to proceed. We are using a Dell/EMC Clarion 300. We have two RAID groups (1 and 2) that had multiple LUNs on each RAID group with the LUNs assigned to different servers (I know, bad idea). Only one server uses the two...

Hi all, thanks in advance for all help that is offered. Two questions: 1. Is is possible to setup an IBM 3583 tape library with a single drive in "sequential mode" or does it only work in "random access mode"? 2. Does anyone have any sample tapeutil scripts for managing a 3583 tape library? All...

* Veritas Backup Exec 9.0 Trial Version * Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 * Plextor PX-708A DVD+RW device with latest (v1.01) firmware update * Verbatim DatalifePlus DVD+RW Media (Memorex media *does not* work on this drive) I am exploring performing full system backups onto DVD+RW media. I have...

We are building a new radio telescope called PAST (http://astrophysics.phys.cmu.edu/~jbp/past6.pdf) which we will install at the South Pole or in Western China. To make this work, will need to sample (6 to 8 bit precision) dozens of analog voltages at 400 Msample/sec and feed these data streams...

Hello, I'm new to SANs so please excuse my ignorance. I've been reading about zoning and RSCNs. From what I've read RSCNs are sent to all members of a zone after a change in the port status occurs on a port in that zone. For example, if all servers are in the same zone, and one of them is...

Hey guys/gals, I know very little about SANs but have been asked to find information on the web about which is the better overall switch: The Brocade Silkworm 3900 or the McData 3232? All I can find are marketing blurbs and very little about the technical merits of each device. Which do you...

Does anyone sell a SnapServer-like kit, where you provide your own drive(s)? I'm hoping for a network-attached, not firewire/usb device, in a very small package, so it can go on the road, that allows drives to appear as multiple 32g FAT32 partitions, so I can still access them from Windows 95...