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    Sick of Veritas Backup Exec...other options?

    http://www.commvault.com/ I had a customer who had Veritas in for three days trying to setup a backup schema with no luck - the customer spent four hours with commvault and was doing test restores.
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    Writing zeros to drive

    1. A) If you are trying to erase the drive you want a tool (like drivewipe) that writes more than zeros to the disk. B) If you are trying to avoid the "first write" penalty, any sort of 'dd' tool that will write a file to fill the drive is all you need. 2. I don't know how long it...
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    Where would you buy a new SATA drive?

    Thanks guys! I had a DOA from ZipZoomFly/Googlegear (it was packed very well for shipping) it had a ding in the top of the drive cover and I didn't catch it before plugging it in (can you hear the click click click?). So I requested an RMA and now they are blaming me for the drive damage...
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    SAN guys, rally to me!

    It isn't the san that needs the DC, it's the windows clustering software.
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    Safe or not safe?

    What are you trying to accomplish? Protection from RFI? or cable abrasion?
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    Where would you buy a new SATA drive?

    I'm looking to buy a SATA hard drive and I've seen the ad's on the main page of the [H] and was wondering which online vendor to trust with my money. I'm looking for a reputable vendor with a reliable RMA / warranty process (just in case I get a dud or the UPS man drops the box). Price...
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    Diskpar on RAID boot drives

    Does anyone know a way to run diskpar (no "t") on a raid 1 that will be the OS drive? I've used diskpar on all kinds of RAID 5 drives from small (compaq smart array attached) to large (HP Enterprise Virtual Array) and on average seen a 20% improvement in read/write performance. I know it...
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