Does any vendor make a 1U or 2U SATA / SAS RAID enclosure that uplinks to
the host by a simple eSATA connection (i.e., RAID on the enclosure, not RAID
on the host adapter).

I turning to this group's expertise in order to find out if what I'm
looking for realy exists..
I need a better backup solution then a external SCSI DDS tape hooked
on a backupserver using amanda to backup remote servers in the LAN.

I have a 120GB Maxtor Diamond that I need to recover some data from. The
drive failed tonight. It was in an external enclosure attached to my Win2K3
box via USB.  I noticed an I/O error in the event viewer. The drive spins up
fine but then is making a "Tick" noise about every 5 ...

I was just salivating over the specifications of Blue-Ray and HD
DVD  disks. It would make backing up and storing information so much
easier for me. As it stands the best option for me now is single layer
DVDs. They hold a lot and are cheap. That brings me to an observation.

Clariion SANS connect through a brocade switch a cluster of two hosts
called ClusterA.  Another connection is to another cluster of two
hosts called ClusterB.  Can ClusterA connect to ClusterB drives
without changing the physical connection.

 I have a strange question about an old hard drive that I pulled out
of an old Pentium 1 computer.  The hard drive was working fine, and
the computer was able to boot into Windows 95 fine.
Then I decided to run SpinRite6 to check if the hdd had any bad

This new Samsung SpinPoint T166 (HD501L, firmware CR100-10)
behaves strangely. I have a program that repeatedly { fills a
block device with pseudo-random data, reads it back and checks
that it matches }. I started the program last night on the

I have a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 30GB that appears as 'no drive present' in
a few PCs I've tried it in.  There are only some files to recover since the
last backup so it may not be worth a recovery service.  What are the
prospects that it's just the logic board, which I can get ...

All,
What ATA133 RAID controllers using DIMM memory do you know? I'm trying to
look around to find something to improve the speed of my home server that I
use for video rendering. Right now I'm having 4 IBM/Hitachi hard drives,

I'm disappointed with the Seagate eSATA drive, because after a power
failure, the drive requires you to push the button to restart it,
which is a real problem since the other equipment starts right up.
Seagate support says there's no way to fix it, and further claimed

I have a new Dell Latitude P520 laptop with Vista Business addition.  I have
a Simple Tech 250 gig external (USB) hard drive that I moved over from my
previous XP laptop.  My Simple Tech external hard drive worked just fine with
XP, but with my new Vista laptop the external hard ...

If I have a 4K block size file system, what is the overhead of the
space taken by the metadata block for a file?
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Good day, I have a Toshiba 80 gb 2.5" hard disk. The drive works
perfectly for 5-10 minutes, then it stops and I need to disconnect it
and close it for 2 hours to cool down. When cool it can work agaIn for
5-10 minutes. I managed to save my files and I left the hard disk on my

We are using two USB hard drives (250gb) as backup for our companies
system. Each is used to contain a complete image of the entire server,
and is swapped over every night with the other.
There is a power switch on the housing, which we have been turning

Hi all, i need a motor with a high rotational accuracy, so i 've think
to re-use a motor of a hard disk.
Here are some questions:
1) considering the smallest rotation permitted with a motor of this