Recent content by Stickman

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.

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...

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...

It isn't the san that needs the DC, it's the windows clustering software.

What are you trying to accomplish? Protection from RFI? or cable abrasion?

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...

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...