by wwarren | Sep 18, 2009 | Hardware, Open Source, Storage
SSDs, pNFS Will Test RAID Controller Design – www.enterprisestorageforum.com. Current RAID controllers(real raid controllers not fake ones) are going to start hitting a serious bottleneck before too long. Once SSD’s start getting into the market...
by wwarren | Mar 12, 2009 | Hardware, Storage, Windows
Many folks have not realized that modern filesystems in Windows negate the need for partitions. Back in the 16 bit days when partitions could not exceed 2 gigs or less this was necessary. Partitioning is a throwback to DOS and in the modern file systems this is...
by wwarren | Mar 6, 2009 | SBS 2008, Storage, Windows
I have spent the past few days working with level .5 techs(in terms of the knowledge of their own product) trying to get carbonite to restore the data it so willingly allowed me to upload. Nowhere on the site does it mention a 50 gig cap and then they slow you down...
by wwarren | Mar 6, 2009 | Hardware, SBS 2008, Storage, Windows
Luckily mounting the .vhd worked..but not without it’s own issues. The instructions i talked about in my last post forget one thing. The weird filename that the system generates make the vhdmount program barf. I also wound up having to put the files inside...
by wwarren | Mar 5, 2009 | Open Source, SBS 2008, Storage
I was excited about carbonite. The backup side works great…the restore is a disaster. Two days after a server crash and i am waiting on carbonite to give me back my files. SBS 2008 backup sucks for DR and i was depending on carbonite to save my behind. ...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2009 | Hardware, Storage
AnandTech. I hit this issue with the onetouch series 4 external drives. Anything based on the barracuda .11 series is having issues. I had to return the drives and go with some seagate laptop external drives.
