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EMC CLARiiON RAID 6 Technology: RAID 6 is generally described as data striped across a number of drives within a RAID group, with two independent parity fields maintained for redundancy. Thus RAID 6 is also referred to as N+2 or double parity. The purpose of this white paper is to introduce the reader to CLARiiON...; Tags: EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., RAID 6, RAID, Storage, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-07-01
Intelligent RAID 6 Uses Dual Independent Parity Coding Schemes for Extra Data Protection: RAID 6 is an emerging technology for shared storage systems and the large, high-capacity SATA disk arrays used in servers today. With double parity coding, intelligent RAID 6 delivers the highest level of reliability and data protection in a cost-effective solution. To produce the dual independent parity schemes in RAID...; Tags: Data Protection, Parity, Intel Corp., RAID 6, RAID, Storage, Hardware; Case studies

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More info on USB 3.0 emerges: More info on USB 3.0 emerges4.8Gbps Huh?Not too shabby, now only if I can think of a consumer computer peripheral that can utilize that speed. With the other bottle necks in data storage devices such as hard drives I think there is a need to improve those data...; Tags: NOW IT, USB, USB 3.0, More Info; Discussion threads 2008-08-18
IBM: The mainframe is back: IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-08-18
Second guessing at 3AM: Second guessing at 3AMIt's 3 AM...A crisis is happening somewhere in the world. It's 3 AM, and a phone is ringing at the White House. Who do you want answering that phone?...Couldn't resist. :)hey murph here a conceptDeep down inside what your guts telling you.This morning when you...; Tags: Roman; Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Video: Picking a Linux distribution: Video: Picking a Linux distributionSuSE 11 not ready for prime time.Check the forums. Lots of problems with multi-boot, hard drives, especially raid, others - check their forum.I tried it on brand new machine. Had trouble with Seagate Cheetah drive and adaptec raid. Tried 10.3, went smooth as silk.If you have...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, video, Linux; Discussion threads 2008-08-05
Another App bites the dust: Box Office/Now Playing: Another App bites the dust: Box Office/Now PlayingStill think......Apple having complete control over application distribution is a good thing?RE: Another App bites the dust: Box Office/Now PlayingIf your application happens to provide a more useful service than applications that Apple already provide or might complete with an apple service, then...; Tags: Box Office/Now, Box Office/Now Playing, Apple iPhone; Discussion threads 2008-08-04
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Windows Vista: The Mother-in-law versus Vista battle cold war never ends. Every week, it's something different that goes wrong that brings us to the brink of annihilation, and I have to swoop in on the weekends to fix the inevitable new problem that comes up. Fortunately, I have the system more or...; Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rachel, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Internet, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-08-04
(Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas): Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configurationThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configuration is supported by many motherboards.Go for it. If a disk crashes you can replace it rapidly without data loss.VelociRaptor the fastest desktop HD?My one year old 300GB Seagate ST3300555SS SAS drive is faster:...; Tags: Desktops, Serial ATA, SAS Institute, VelociRaptor, PC Upgrade, PC, desktop; Discussion threads 2008-08-01
My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i: My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3iI dove deep dude ...... and in Table 11 came to 'iSCSI with Broadcom GB NIC'. Might give that a try before buying a RAID card.How about an expo from you/Robin H. on iSCSI? Some free offerings out there for iSCSI targets these...; Tags: IP storage, Storage area networks (SAN), Network technology, SATA Chipset, VMware Inc., iSCSI, Serial ATA, RAID, VMWare ESX, ESX, storage; Discussion threads 2008-07-28
My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i: As soon as I heard the announcement from bright and bushy-tailed VMWare CEO Paul Maritz that the company was shortly going to be releasing their ESX 3i enterprise-class embedded hypervisor for free, I was absolutely thrilled. Given the pace of technology reporting, I knew that I had to get it...; Tags: VMware Inc., VMWare ESX, Ip storage, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-27
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
A Friday Active Directory puzzler: We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...; Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.: OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...; Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareRE: Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmareThe legal "Phalanx" is only one of several tools that Apple is heating in the furnace of hi-tech to fight the Cloners and maintain their iron grip on quality control of their hardware, which is their major...; Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Psystar, hardware, Thermopylae, clone nightmare; Discussion threads 2008-07-16
R-Studio for Mac (dmg): R-Studio for Mac is powerful and cost-effective data recovery software for Apple lovers. R-Studio for Mac is specially designed for Mac OS environment and recovers files from HFS/HFS+ Macintosh, FAT/NTFS Windows, UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS Linux partitions. It also recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged...; Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Macintosh, Disk, File System, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2008-07-15
iFlyDisk (exe): iFlyDisk is a network based virtualized disk mapping software. iFlyDisk can do mapping some disk/RAID disks on a computer, but the disk source is a disk or a image file on another computer. The virtual disk which you mapping from other computers can be used as usual as local. It...; Tags: Disk, KernSafe Technology, iFlyDisk; Software downloads 2008-07-14
Vox BlackBox (1TB): The Vox BlackBox offers 1TB of storage and can be found online from roughly $310 to $340. Aside from its low cost per gigabyte, there's unfortunately little to recommend about this dual-drive Network Attached Storage NAS device. From the desktop application to the Web-based interface, the device is consistently confusing....; Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NETWORKING, BlackBox, VoX; Product reviews 2008-07-11
Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard drive: Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveSeagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveDamn thats a huge drive. Just think of all the adult entertainment you could store on that drive.Why?Give me a RAID 5 featuring four 500GB drives. Far more stable, faster, et cetera... of course, it...; Tags: RAID, Storage, first 1.5TB desktop hard drive, desktop hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, desktop, hard drive; Discussion threads 2008-07-10