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I live in Norway and these drives are discontinued here. The 4TB model is an option. These ones are too expensive in Norway for some reason. I have done a search on a Norwegian pricegrabber type site and this is what i found: Hitachi Deskstar NAS H3IKNAS30003272SE 64MB 3TB -7200rpm drive...

Hi. Today I have 7 Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 on a Areca 1280ML. Space is soon running out and I need a few new drives. The problem is that these drives are discontinued and I don't know what will be the best match. Any ideas?? I'm running Disc Capasity Truncation Mode at 10G so I guess...

I deleted a Host (A) record under hjemme.domain, but this had no effect. Do you have a more detailed guide of how I can do this??

I tried to use netdom to change the name. I used this command. netdom renamecomputer WIN-GE023SOGBVU /newname:SERVER /userD:HJEMME\Administrator /passwordD:MyPassword /userO:HJEMME\Administrator /passwordO:MyPassword /force /reboot:60 The command completed successfully, but i still have...

Well, I have a DNS server which have the old name. In AD everything seems to have the new name. Is the DNS server my problem here?

I have a 2008 R2 Server running AD-DS, DHCP, DNS and some other things. The problem I have is that the server is listed twice in Network Places with two different names. I changed the name of the server somewhere inbetween adding the roles and now I have //Server and //WIN-XXXXXX having the...

I must admit I dont really know enough about stripe sizes. Is is better to use smaller size, like 32 or 64k? Changing it wouldnt affect the init time would it?

I made a new array of 6 x 3TB Hitachi 5K3000 drives in raid 6 and the initialization is taking forever. 49% in 36 hours? 72 hours in total? Configuration of array; Foreground Volume Set Name ARC-1280-VOL#01 Raid Set Name Raid Set # 01 Volume Capacity 12000.0GB SCSI Ch/Id/Lun 0/0/1 Raid...

Since I just got some money to burn i was thinking of maybe going for 4TB drives instead. Have anyone tested these on a 1280ML? I can find 5 different types of 4TB drives also. Which one is the kind to go for? Hitachi Deskstar H3IK40003254SE 32MB 4TB Hitachi Deskstar H3IK40003254SW...

What models of Hitachi drives is th most reliable on the 1280 now? Thinking of both 2 and 3 TB drives.

Hi. I have a Norco 4020 with 12xSeagate 1,5TB drives. These drives are from the ST31500340AS series and they are now starting to fail. I am looking for new drives to replace these so i have a couple of questions. I know this is not the best of times to buy new drives, but I don't know if I...

Hi.. I am going to OCE a 8x1,5TB Raid6 raid-set into a 12x1,5TB Raid6. Is there a rule for how many disks I can do each time? I guess, since it's a raid6 I would be ok with doing first to 10 drives and then to 12, but I'm not sure about this. What do people suggest?

Looks cool though :D

Thanks for many good answers here. Seems like this is normal then? :D

I upgraded my server a couple of weeks ago to this; Asus DSBV-DX Serverboard Xeon 5410 12GB FB-DIMM Areca 1280ML w/2GB cache 8xSeagate 1.5TB (ST31500341AS) in Raid6 I thing I am getting some strange numbers here, but maybe this is normal? All tests was taken in a 3 min window...