I bought what was supposed to be a retail Seagate 750 PATA drive on
eBay.  I paid with PayPal.  My PayPal account is funded from my
MasterCard account.
The drive arrived today.  It was in a shrink wrapped Seagate box

Does anyone have experience with hard drive encryption reducing or
otherwise effecting the reliability of their hard drive?
While working with an enterprise worth of mixed desktop and laptop
computers recently, it seems the laptop have a higher rate of "issues"

What's the best SAN solution I can get for $20K?
Planned uses include storage for student data (we are a school
district)
VMware server virtualization (store virtual machines here for failover)

I just experienced my second HD crash in 18 months. I didn't lose much
since I back up to CD-R's, but it is time consuming to back up this
way. My problem still a lot of stuff has to be reinstalled,
downloaded, it is time consuming (Antivirus updates, anti spyware

Just set up a External HD for backup purposes. I was hoping that there
would be a way to allow it to shut off at the same time as the
internal one does.
I installed a Seagate 250GB Sata HD in a Venus DS3 Sata/USB E-Sata

I'm seeing alot of new server rackmount sata backplanes listed as
"multilane"...
I'm not familiar with this terminology.. is having a rackmount server
with removable SATAII HDs and this terminology better in any way than

I have a latop with only one hard drive
I want to save the current  C drive to an image.
Is there any free software that can clone within the same  harddrive?
(target and destination are the same hard drive, but driver letters

at the moment our 1.5 TB fileserver holds about 3.5 million files, which
are backed up via network. Now I have to plan an upgrade to at least 3TB
and consider to invest in an ndmp-capable filer. But is nmdp really
faster in this environment ? (if the underlying RAID-systems are ...

Hi, all...
Can anybody tell me where to find the working of SAN details and
the complete functional details of the devices that are involved in it.
I mean the working of SAN and the complete detail of

Is it possible to lock an amount (such us 10%) of the whole available
space on a flash drive (pen drive) to eliminate any possibility of
overwriting/cancellation/.... ?
How do i perform that?

Hello all.  I am using an STK L180 tape library for all backups on
our domain.  The server is Win 2k3 using Veritas NetBackup 4.5GA.
Since this library keeps time itself, does anyone know what will
happen due to the new date of DSL starting this year?

Hello all.  I am running an STK L180 tape library for all backups on
our domain.  The server is Win 2k3 using Veritas NetBackup 4.5GA.
Since this library keeps time itself, does anyone know what will
happen due to the new date of DSL starting this year?

My coworker just gave me his used Snap Server 4000.  I've connected it
to my home network and everything is working correctly, but it's asking
me for a user name & password to access the device (either to gain
access to the drives or for configuration).

Can someone please tell  why  solaris host spits these messages when
booting up.
There are external EMC disks  and powerpath is 3.0
Jan 26 02:13:43 yacko pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device:

I face performance issue on snapvault for some specific volumes.
First I explain my configuration. Around 10primary filers are
configured for snapvault on single R200 and used data size is around
45TB. Now almost all volumes are taking place overnight for changed