Hey, I'm looking for a NAS that is able to do the following: - 500gb - web server - print server - itunes server - smtp mail server

What is the minimum number of members (drives) I need in a raid 0 stripe in order to gain read/write performance advantages? Some people I've talked to say 3, others say 4. Anyone know the answer? thanks.

Technical question: We have a rather uncommon setup on a number of AS/400 systems partitions in that they use external SAN disk, not internal spindles. They work pretty well, and some machines even use a load source emulator card (ie. NO internal disk at all). 'D' IPLs, DR tests, system rebuilds...

I thought there was a Norton Utilities program that had the capability to write zeros on all the unused space on the hard drive. I looked at all the menu options in Norton DiskEdit and Disk Doctor and I don't see any such capability. Can someone tell me do you know if Norton has it anywhere? ...

Hello, I would also like to find the source for an (sample) XBSA client or application (i.e. links against an XBSA library) so I can better understand the XBSA API, function call sequence , etc. Vasili

Dear, We have a problem with 2 servers running Solaris 10 and Netbackup. When we try to backup our client we always get errorstatus 24 after backing up 7GB or 34GB or 67GB or random GB of data.(it's gives a broken pipe after a while.) Networksettings are equal and it's fixed 1000Mbps full duplex...

What Network Appliance products where available back in 1994? I mentioned the Gear6 solid state storage device and somebody said they were using comparable equipment back in 1994, an unspecified model of "Network Appliance", by which I take it they mean the products made by NetApp. I suspect they...

Hi. Migrating an older symm to DMX, since R1/R2 conversion needs a bin file change in the old symm, we are using existing SRDF relationship to migrate data from DMX to old Symm. Now the question is, there are a few devices that are visible to a HP-UX host that don't have SRDF relationship (not...

I'm using V480s with A1000s as storage using Veritas DB edition, solaris 8 running oracle. We're seeing poor IO performance and I'm having trouble pinpointing the problem. IO looks fine when it's mostly writes, but tanks the moment reads increase: Lookin' good:

Hi, I have an application where digital data is streamed to me at a rate of 20 MB/sec. I have 6 250GB disks totallying 1.5 TB of storage. I want to store as much data as possible and age off old data as new data arrives. I need to allow "readers" to pull from the 20 MB/sec data stream at any...

I hope my question makes sense (I'm not sure...). I mean, let's suppose I've got a disk failure on a Raid 1 array of 2 IDE disks, and for any reason the Raid controler is out. Can I just take the remaining working drive, and read its data on any normal IDE machine ? Or is it absolutely necessary to...

I urgently need memory cycle timings for CompactFlash, which are defined in the PC Card specification (formerly PCMCIA). However, I'm having trouble ordering the 13 volume PC Card specification (nobody home at PCMCIA.org). If you have the specification, I would be most grateful if you could...

Hi I write from Barcelona, Spain We have our security copies in around 3000 cd's we are now realizing that cd support is not eternal. We want to pass it to other storage system ( in example, hdd for dialy consulting and tapes as a backup for put it in a bank cage). My first doubt is does anyone...

Looking for a way to connect 2 pc's via floppy ports? Any suggestions would be helpfull. Please do not suggest the obvious as using floppy diskettes. I want to try to connect 2 pc's using the floppy's 34 pin cables. Thanks.

I have now found a torx screwdriver to take off the pcb and sure enough theres a bit of melted insulation and a couple of blackened and twisted chips, hope I haven't damaged any of the drive internals!! -- ricardogonzalezIII

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 am looking to upgrade our Legato NMC server. Currently, our NMC installation (Version 3.1.Build.100) resides on a two processor (248 MHz) SUN4u server with 512 Megabytes RAM. We have about two dozen backup servers and a couple of hundred clients. We need to move to a new server for two reasons:...

I need to know where exactly file sits on the disk. I know that I can use "ncheck /dev/... | grep filename" in order to find file's i-number. How do I translate that number to physical sector on disk ? I tried to understand how fsdb works, but failed.. Please help..

Hi, I have had a multitude of problems with my superloader L600. I call Quantum tech support under a warranty contract quite often. As of recently, all superloader support has been outsourced to India. The way I found out was every time I call, a person speaking with an Indian accent would pick...

Hi folks, Is anyone here using a UniTrends disk to disk backup solution? I'm considering implementing the DPU3000 and was hoping to get some general feedback. I'm currently using Veritas Backup Exec and a HP LTO tape drive for backups. The disk to disk solution seems like it would be light years...