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Open source storage by
S[_4_]
So in the past few months there have been some interesting moves
towards Open Source Storage: ZFS on Solaris, and Nexenta's software
appliance.
Has anyone out there deployed it to where it actually does anything
useful? The cost savings are phenomenal, but nothing is truly free,
you pay for it one...
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Network Storage Help by
scotv453
Hello everyone,
I have been cruising this group for some time. But most of the
posts that interest me in my needs are too specific to their company.
So here is my problem. I hope you can help.
I work for a small law firm/medical claims office/student loans and
recovery of roughly 140 users....
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Netapp FC-SAN experiences anyone?? by
Rob Turk
I'm trying to evaluate NetApp's SAN functionality, not the iSCSI way but
Fibre Channel.
Network Appliance offers FC-SAN connectivity for real fibre SAN's. Inside
the box the LUN's they offer exist as files on top of their WAFL filesystem.
So the LUN's are pure virtual. To me that sounds like it...
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Foolproof warning for drive failure in a RAID? by
Spacey Spade
When a drive fails in RAID(1), I would like the RAID to stop functioning
so that users will not continue to operate on the remaining mirror
drive. This with a couple of small businesses not really requiring a
hot spare. I cannot find details anywhere describing exactly what
happens when a disk...
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Small Office Backup Solution Required by
J5
I work in a small office environment: 6 2K Workstations, NT Network,
2K Web Server, 2K Proxy Server, 2K File Server.
Currently have a 10/20GB HP Travan (Colorado) Tape drive backing up
the File Server with Tapeware. I need a better solution than this.
Requirements:
1) I need to be able to backup...
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new faster disk design idea by
- C -
If you ever opened a hard drive, you will see a couple of platters and an
arm that has a head for each surface. So if 2 platters, then 4 surfaces and
4 heads. The arm moves the heads across the platters and the platters
rotate, so any spot on the disk can be seeked with both movement...
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LTO-3 Autoloader Recommendation by
Dan Adams
I am looking at the Gateway 823 LTO-3 Autoloader, and I will appreciate
user feedback. What features should I look for in such a tape drive?
The featues I seek include the following: U320 or U160 interface, NT
Backup and Veritas BENT/Win2003 compatibility, 8 slots, support for a
cleaning tape,...
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File Servers vs NAS? by
Theo
Hi all... another new person to the world of file servers.
Im looking into using an old computer, beefing it up a bit, and using it
for a home office storage unit. Also, Im looking into the 'home media
center' thing where wireless adapters that plug into stereos or tvs stream
data off of...
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Running SQL database off of SAN -- is it feasible ? by
Larry David
Hi,
I'm trying to create a home for a database. The database will ultimately
reach approximately 200Gb in size. Usage patterns will consist of
approximately 80% read, 20% write. The vast majority of the reads will
require random access to small chunks of data (less than 64k).
Two SQL Server...
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Question - Individual Not Company - But Tape v CD Stamper by
nitroxen
Every few months I go through the same routine - take my CD collection and
see if time or dust got the better of it.
I was wondering about CD stamping machines - would that be a better backup
over a Tape? Would a CD stamping machine be flexible and cost effective?
I understand a CD stamper would...
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ILM and Full Text Search by
[email protected]
Hello,
I'm looking into various ILM products such as those from Kazeon, EMC,
NeoPath, etc. One question that comes up is how these products behave
when a client does a full-text search against a volume that contains
data that's been migrated away.
From what I understand, a file access causes...
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Replacing EMC Clariion disks with Best Buy disks by
Boll Weevil
I have a Clariion CX400 being used in a lab with 250 GB sata drives and I want
to pull out the drives out of the drive brackets and replace them with 500 GB or
750 GB drives I buy from ...say Frys or Best Buy. Is there a special firmware
on the EMC drives that may prevent me from doing this or any...
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Kingston "512MB" SD flash cards - only 488MB by
Alun Saunders
Peter wrote:
I have three of these, all brand new. All show 488MB as the size when
formatting them and this is matched by the size of the files that can
be transferred to them from a PC.
Even allowing for 1k being 1024 etc this is a very big shortfall.
Is this normal? I haven't seen...
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PanFS? by
Ernest Siu
Any know know much about the solutions from Panasas? The PanFS looks
similar to clustered filesystem like CxFS, GFS, StorNext,
Lustre...etc. except it is object-based. Their solution seems to
include the backend storage, control blades, and some NFS/CIFS heads
for interop. What is the benefit of...
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December 4th 04 02:17 PM
by Wolf
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AIT Drives Under USB? by
Will
Has anyone been successful in using any flavor of AIT tape drive under USB,
mapped through IDE? I know Sony makes an IDE version of the drive, and it's
common these days to find cases that will map IDE/EIDE hard drives into USB
2.0. I assume those same casese could map an AIT IDE drive to the...
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Is there such a thing as Enterprise Class SATA drives by
Steve Christall
All,
I am currently having a discussion with a large storage vendor that is
attempting to justify the price of it's SATA drives offered with enterprise
level enclosures (eg backing onto fibre). One large part of their argument
is that the SATA drives (250GB) that they use are "special", built to...
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Can iSCSI work in 24/7 environment? by
Rob Scott
I am looking at using consolidated storage to ease our fragmented and
increasingly hard to manage storage problem at my company. The conventional
way to go seems to be to buy an expensive fibre channel SAN from HP or EMC,
buy FC cards for all the servers, dual FC switches, and an FC array with
dual...
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1GB cache related plus ... by
albatros66
Hi,
This is in reality related to low cost subsystems like SCSI-to-IDE or
or FC-to-SATA or similar but one can think more general about it ...
1) What can be benefits from upgrading subsystem's memory cache from
512MB to 1GB? (or maybe graual effects: 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB,
more)
2) Is it true...
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Newbie storage questions... (RAID5, SANs, SCSI) by
David Sworder
Hi,
I'm reading a book that describes how to plan an SQL Server
installation. The book warns that one should never use RAID5 unless the
volume receives less than 10% writes (i.e. 90% reads). Apparently the
performance penalty for data writes is quite high with RAID5 but I'm having
trouble...
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