I just got a couple of WD20EARS drives and I want to test them before putting them in. I got a bad batch of WDs a couple of years ago, so i generally try to burn them in now, when I first get them.
I would generally use the WD Data LifeGuard tools from their website, but the DOS bootable...
I'm playing around with my new Areca 1260 and I've already hit a data corruption issue. I have an 9 drive raid group (500GB each) that I've carved into a 2TB R5 lun. I presented the LUN to my ESX guest using Raw Device Mapping and all seemed to go pretty well. It's as fast a i need (200MB/s...
I've built a new HW Raid volume and it's pretty fast with ext4, but I was wondering if I should be considering some other FS for media files (mostly music). I've tried Reiser before, but I'm not really hot on that anymore. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi guys,
I'm wondering if anyone might have some insight into a strange issue I'm having with my ARECA raid card. I have an ARC-1260 plugged into an HP DL380 G5 server. I'm connecting a bunch of Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 drives. All of the drives are identical and I've tested each of them on...