recommendations on hardware Raid 10 card
We're looking to replace our old SAN with an onboard card running Raid 10 and having multiple SFF-8087. We're planning on putting it in a Norco 24 drive case and slowly expanding. Anyone have...
View ArticleStormagic vs Starwind - who is the best?
Hey everyone,We are about to go for a couple of new servers to host our new VM infrastructure. Its pretty standard, nothing too eyebrow raising as its a small company. A couple of Dell R730 servers, no...
View ArticleSSD cachecade and TBW
So I'm building a new ERP production server with limited resources:Poweredge R510 - 2x E562064GB RAMSix Samsung 850 Pros in RAID5Six 2TB Hitachi disc drives in RAID10H700 HW Raid with 512mbMy server...
View ArticleHow full can I fill my SAN
For many years, the rule of thumb on a single hard drive has been to keep it below 75% capacity. Is this also true with SANs? I have a EMC VNXe and its sitting right around 75% capacity. It is...
View ArticleShould I or shouldn't I? - 600GB 15K or Cachecade
Hi allWe are currently using a 6 month old Dell R720 for hosting our VMs. We've always had speed issues with our VMs and it has a PERC H710p RAID controller so I've always wanted to try setting up...
View ArticleWhich NAS you recommend for SMB backup storage
Planning to buy a NAS storage for our backups.Very small environment with VMware host, 7 VMs, Veeam backup.Total backup size 200GB, daily increment is around 7-10GB (Compressed).Will use the NAS for...
View ArticleNAS or Enterprise drives for NAS device ?
Planning to get Synology NAS 415+ and wanted to know which drives you recommend.This NAS will be used only for backup storage. 1) Which drives do you recommend. NAS drives (or) Enterprise drives2)...
View ArticleQuestion about Hewlett Packard MSL G3 Series
Tape drive takes more time / tapes for backup then the prescribe time and date.For example if 15 days are given for backup it does take more then 15 days n the backup contineu further till 30...
View ArticleAtlantis UCX vs Tegile
We need to increase/replace our Dell Equalogic Storage and Migrate our basic HyperV installation to VMware with High Availability of SQL Clustering.One Vendor is suggesting Tegile T3100 Dual...
View ArticleP400 vs P410 Raid controller
Hello,I currently have a P400 RAID controller running in an ML350 G5. Is it worth it to upgrade to a P410?This is a home lab and currently I am running 4x1TB WD blues in a Raid 10. One reason to...
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BoxWorks discount for SpiceHeads!
BoxWorks 2015 is happening on September 28-30th in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, and we want you to join us!Right now, we're offering a special deal for all of our special SpiceHeads out there,...
View ArticleReplication Bandwidth
I'm currently replicating to the DR site using the built in equallogic replication.We're likely going to move off of equallogic for the coming San refresh. And we're only going to update one side the...
View ArticleWhy We Recommend Against OpenFiler
After a few years of recommending against the use of OF for storage projects, I'm surprised to find that it still comes up in nearly daily conversations as a tool being considered for storage. The...
View ArticleCombo NAS Vs. Diskless NAS , which one you will pick.
Planning to buy NAS device for backup storage which option below would you pick:Option 1:Combo deal from newegg NAS device includes the following drivesWD Red WD40EFRX 4TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA...
View ArticleHow is Synology Tech support ?
Planning to buy Synolgy NAS device ( DS415+).Just wanted to check with current Synology users to see how good Synology tech support is.Do they answer phone right away ? Or is it online ticket posting...
View ArticleLenovoEMC px12-450r or px12-400r
Have these devices still being sold, they are in stock at CDW etc but the guy at lenovo thought they had stopped selling them? Are they any good, I just want decent slow 7.2k storage?
View ArticleAre 6TB drives reliable than 4TB ?
Planning to get 6TB hard drives for our new NAS device.We can settle with 4TB x 4 drives (RAID 6) But wondering if we can go with 6TB x 4 (RAID 6), then we might get more space.But how good are...
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Two flash drives... one problem
I am attempting to create a bootable USB drive with the Kaspersky Rescue Disk ISO. I have two flash drives, both 32GB NTFS, one PNY and one SanDisk. The SanDisk is freshly formatted and is my...
View ArticleClustered Disk Question
We have a clustered disk being hosted by two servers. On the first server the disk is online. On the 2nd server the disk is listed as "offline due to policies set by your administrator".We've turned...
View ArticleHow to Cluster Shared Volume in 2012 R2?
HiI have two DL380 Gen 8's, both are Hyper-V hosts as domain members and three VM's each. Each uses its own local storage and each backs up to the other.Am I right in thinking I can setup these two...
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