Storage

Acronis TI 11 question...
Hi Is it possible to restore a TI 11 backup to a different partition? A friend has used it for the first time and he says he can only restore his backup to the original (source) partition. Is that correct? If so its a big limitation for some purposes. Thanks for any info. Ian ... 22 Dec 2007 21:31

Corrupted hard drive
I have a quick question about a failed hard drive. I have a hard drive that's giving me the "click of death". It's a data drive, no OS, but it has alot of family pix on it that I never backed up (about 8gb). I'd like to save the data, but it's also not worth it for me to spend too much money. I found a repair... 27 Dec 2007 15:44

Best Raid 1 Controller Card ?
I am in the process of picking out a Raid Controller for allot of machine at work. I have used the Promise TX2300. They are moody cards. They work on some machines and not on others and the machines are identical. I need one that works and has good instructions and works all the time. The documentation for the Pr... 22 Dec 2007 16:27

How do I arrange drives.
I need about 10 Terabytes of storage space. I see that there are 1 Terabyte disks available. I'm new to RAID, so please... As I understand it there are different ways to configure drives in a raid for redundancy... If there are 8 bites per byte and one bit for parity and / or redundancy, then do I need 9 dr... 21 Dec 2007 13:50

What Determines Which Drive Is HD0?
Arno Wagner wrote: Previously chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: <edited for brevity> There are no reliability issues with any recent IBM drive. Nothing is wrong as generally they work just fine. There is no well known and reputable website nor news source that confi... 24 Dec 2007 01:07

raid10.. how many drives can fail and still have the array in tact? (4 drives/8 drives)
Previously markm75 <markm75c(a)msn.com> wrote: On Dec 20, 1:35 am, Arno Wagner <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: Previously markm75 <markm...(a)msn.com> wrote: With a 4 drive raid10.. i'm a little unclear on how many can fail here and still work.. A raid 10 uses RAID1 components as basis to build a RAID ... 21 Dec 2007 08:07

raid10.. how many drives can fail and still have the array in tact? (4 drives/8 drives)
Previously markm75 <markm75c(a)msn.com> wrote: With a 4 drive raid10.. i'm a little unclear on how many can fail here and still work.. A raid 10 uses RAID1 components as basis to build a RAID 0 on top. If in any of the RAID1 subcomponents two drives fail, the whole array fails. For 4 drives that would be ... 20 Dec 2007 01:55

raid10.. how many drives can fail and still have the array in tact? (4 drives/8 drives)
With a 4 drive raid10.. i'm a little unclear on how many can fail here and still work.. Same with 8 drive? Any thoughts? Thanks ... 22 Dec 2007 22:38

SSS - anyone knows this chip brand? (ATA Flash / CF controller)
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:17:22 -0800 (PST), Frantisek.Rysanek(a)post.cz put finger to keyboard and composed: Dear everyone, I've recently ripped open a CompactFlash card, and discovered a chip (ATA flash / CompactFlash controller) with a logo saying SSS. The full chip name is SSS 8873. There are texts on the ... 19 Dec 2007 14:48

Which would you go with.. 8 drive raid 5 or 8 drive raid10 or 4-drive r5 and 4-d R10?
Background.. server is a fileserver.. dual quad core xeon harpertown 2.5ghz cpus.. 10gb memory.. sataII enterprise 32mb cache 500gb drives.. already have the OS as a mirror (2 drives).. 12 drive max capacity.. 2 will be free.. This server will serve up 8 VM's running on VS 2005 R2 SP1.. we have 3 other servers, ... 19 Dec 2007 13:40