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Backup budgets have it MAID with cheap disk
Submitted By: SearchStorage.com | 12 Jul 2004
TIP - Do you need to take a MAID approach to backup? Massive Array of Idle Disks is a cheap alternative to tape, but there is a downside in terms of retrieval time.
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Advantages of ATA and SATA disk drives
Expert: Greg Schulz | 06 Jul 2004
EXPERT ANSWER - What is the big deal with the ATA drive, besides the low cost relative to other drives? How about the performance aspect?
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Configuring master and slave drives
Expert: Marc Farley | 14 Jun 2004
EXPERT ANSWER - I have an old IBM hard disk (540 MB). Can I use it as a slave drive, if my primary drive is a Maxtor 30G? If so, how can I change the jumper setting?
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Failing drives and what to do about them
Expert: Marc Farley | 29 Apr 2004
EXPERT ANSWER - I have a Maxtor ATA 133 DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB and a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 PCI adapter card. The original hard drive -- Seagate 120 IDE drive failed just after warranty -- confirmed with GWUTIL.
The Diamondmax that ...
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Sub-$10,000 SANs become a reality
Submitted By: SearchStorage.com | 19 Mar 2004
TIP - Storage startup iQstor is offering a serial ATA-based Fibre Channel SAN for a price one expert calls "impossible to argue with."
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SCSI/FC disk vs. IDE/ATA disk
Submitted By: SearchStorage.com | 27 Feb 2004
TIP - Are you comparing SCSI or Fibre Channel disk to IDE or ATA? Expert Chris Poelker lets you know what the disk differences are and what the important metrics are on spec sheets.
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