I'm looking for a few recommendations for NetApp systems I can buy on the
cheap that would give a reasonable introduction to the NetApp feature set,
particularly for things like snapshots.   I'm okay with something that is
older technology and maybe a full release out of the ...

Windows 2000, FAT32 or NTFS.
For testing,
I want a utility to create BIG files ~1GB on storage  media
quickly.

If I don't install SATA (AHCI) or RAID drivers during the O/S installation
(by pressing F6), does it mean that my SATA controllers perform at a lower
speed?!?
Situation: 2 PCs running XP SP2 (one built with a Bad Axe 2 motherboard and

I am going through the process of business continuity and am looking
at using one of our remote sites as a hot site from a data and
services point of view. This is going to be using vmware / vmotion to
take care of the servers, and some site to site replication for the

i've got an old storage server here, running W2k, with a promise pci-card
raid controller. The controller hosts a raid 5 array and it is 4 or 5 years old,
so i guess it isnt built any more.
So, i wonder, what if the controller fails and i can't buy exactly the same one?

Does Ghost or another program allow me to copy the files from my HD to
my USB drive and if needed boot from the usb drive?
Thanks,
Pete

I'll try and explain . . .
saw a HD forensic item on the news - not fussed about the forensics but
the hd plugs into a base like a home cordless phone base - drive was sata -
standing vertical

On several occasions I have seen situations where faulty UPS's caused
servers wtih RAID 5 arrays to reboot continuosly which caused
corruption to either the RAID array itself or the file system. I am
considering recommending RAID1 whenever possible because I suspect

In the beefy enterprise-level linux database installs, the ones where
you need massive redundancy supplied by two SAN devices, what is the
current ideal for setting them up?
Software raid to mirror the luns from both sans, and use static

Managed to get one of those new Samsung 128gb flash USB drives.  It had a
Sony VAIO label.  Opened it up and there was a single large Samsung chip on
one side and a small circuit and a few other components on the other.  320gb
was also available supposedly.  I formatted it for ...

About a month ago, I bought some memory for my Dell Dimension 8400.  I
even brought the packing slip along which came with the computer,
showing what type of memory was installed at the factory.
Some idiot at one of the electronic stores - after cross referencing it

I'm trying to detect data corruption on a usb hard drive.
My test program writes then reads the disk, but never finds
any corruption.  But if I unmount/unplug and replug the usb, the
corruption appears.

As my windows xp acting slow as a snail, i intend to reinstall windows
to the
drive C(only windows files stored on it). I also have drive D and
drive E used

I have a PC I'm working on that crashed in Windows XP Pro, and since,
will BSOD upon reboot before it gets to the Windows splash screen.
"Load last good configuration" changes nothing.
In safe mode it scrolls a page of drivers before it BSOD.

I have been using Norton Ghost for sometime now to clone disks and are
really impressed with its ability to clone/image disks that have some
fairly serious errors (whereas the likes of Acronis always just seems
to crash!)