I am looking for a NAS solution.
   Has anyone had experience with Hitachi WMS100 or AMS200s?
   http://www.hds.com/products_services/workgroup_modular_storage/
Thanks,

after searching the forums unsuccessfully for an answer I decided t
register and post my question.
Here's the scenario..I've got a Dell Optiplex GX100 pc runnin
Win98SE. It has 2 harddrives: the master for running the OS and othe

I'm planning on buying a SATA-II hard drive but I need to buy a
controller card for it. I see a lot of SATA controller cards that
don't say anything about supporting SATA-II equipment, do they work
with SATA-II drives or do I need to look specifically for a SATA-II

My computer has apparently decided to become instable the big way (I
am suspecting faulty DRAM) - and saturday evening it crashed,
subsequently corrupting my .pst file. I cannot recall how big it had
become - probably some 400-500 MB in size - but when I rebooted outlook

What are some good software utilities for surface testing hard drives for
errors under Windows 2000 / 2003?    We were using IOMETER for a while, but
recently it has stopped working because some other program is taking a TCP
port it wants to own, and it also appears that development ...

The BKS files don't seem to be compressed, since they are the same size as
the store that was backed up.  They aren't compressible either, judging by
my experiment setting the compress attribute of some of them.  Do they use
non-compressible encryption?

What's involved?
Information about a WD that is formatted for use as a DVR is at this link
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=229

Due to a drive failure I added a old Quantum Fireball as a primary
drive and set up the Maxtor as a secondary drive to retreive the data.
Initially this seemed to work, but then I got an error that the Maxtor
had been removed from the system.  Now I can only put one drive on the

My motherboard doesn't have SATA support so I would have to get a
controller for it (I think they're like $50). Would doing this be
worth it for the increase in speed of SATA-II drives or should I just
get an IDE drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What exactly the difference b/w
ATA
CE-ATA
SCSI

 Is there any conditions that determines the failure of system memory
.Is there any threshold value for ecc errors and parity errors that
cause memory failure?
regards

Is it possible to hot swap one of the raid drives to a larger capacity,
let it rebuild then swap another until I have increased my total
overall disk capacity? If not, how would I increase storage capacity on
this server? Anyone any ideas. Thanks in advance.

I should buy a CLARiiON with SnapView or IBM SVC, and we are going to
use a snapshots.
Could you please send me a screenshots of the management GUI of these
tools? I'm trying to understand how convenient they are with snapshots

What is it with Maxtor internal IDE hard drives? This week is the
second time I had trouble with a Maxtor Diamond hard drive.
Here's the story:
When I attempted to access the folder in which the file I needed

What are temporary CDs? AFAIK, they seem to be CDs that work for
a limited amount of time after which they destroy themselves. Is
this true?
If so, can their content be copied, and of so, how? Just