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RSS diskDisk suppliers face politically correct official
News Disk drives may the latest victim of political correctness. According to a memo apparently sent out by the County of Los Angeles, the standard designation used for connecting two disk drives to a single IDE port, which entails setting one drive as... [27 Nov 2003]
Disk Scrubbing Sun StorEdge Arrays
White Paper The Sun StorEdge Disk Scrubber checks the integrity of an array's media. The disk scrubber continuously scans disk drives for media errors. This paper provides an overview of disk scrubbing in general as well as a description of Sun's... [12 Oct 2004]
Disk I/O in Linux
White Paper The paper contains preliminary results from an investigation comparing Linux and Windows XP disk I/O using kernel-based software RAID on identical hardware. Windows XP performance is shown to be substantially superior to Linux performance, for... [24 Feb 2004]
VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk, Tape, and Multiplexing Performance Comparison
White Paper VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark both backup and restore performance, comparing disk, tape, and tape multiplexing solutions. VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers was tested with disk and tape, and Computer Associates... [22 Jan 2007]
VERITAS Backup Exec 10: Disk Restore Performance Benchmark
White Paper VERITAS Software commissioned VeriTest to benchmark and compare disk based restore performance of VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers, Hewlett Packard Data Protector 5.5, and Computer Associates ARCserve 11.1. [22 Jan 2007]
Reducing the Cost of Backup by ?50,000 Annually Using Efficient, Disk-Based Veritas Netbackup 6.0 Puredisk Solution From Symantec
White Paper By implementing this disk-based data protection solution, Hostbasket is saving ¬50,000 annually, and creating a reliable, secure, and centralized backup and restore environment for its customers. Hosting is a highly competitive business and... [17 Jan 2008]
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
White Paper This paper presents and analyzes field-gathered disk replacement data from a number of large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and internet services sites. Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming... [23 Aug 2007]
Disk -- Cheaper Than Tape: The Case for CopyCross
White Paper This white paper discusses the competitiveness of disk replacing tape, primarily from a cost point of view (TCO), and includes aspects of management, performance, and recovery. Today, large storage systems composed of disks can have significant... [03 Jul 2008]
Disk-Based Backup is Better than Tape
White Paper When it comes time to reclaim a lost file, folder, or even perform a complete disaster recovery, disk-based Backup for Workgroups will give you super-fast and stress-free file restoration. This short paper describes the advantage of disk based... [02 Apr 2004]
Disk-Assisted Backup
White Paper This paper discusses how disk-assisted backup technologies can help reduce recovery time and improve backup performance. Businesses value the information they store in their IT systems much more than they have ever done before. [01 Feb 2007]
Disk Performance Testing With Jetstress 2007
White Paper Although I/O throughput requirements for Exchange Server 2007 have significantly dropped (more than 70%) when compared with previous versions, the truth is that the disk subsystem is still a critical component of any Exchange solution. [03 Apr 2008]
Disk Failure Investigations at the Internet Archive
White Paper The Internet Archive is making the first public domain attempt to obtain and disseminate data about disk failures and disk data loss. As storage sites grow in size to thousands of disks, and as the need to predict availability and reliability... [06 Jan 2007]
Disk Mirroring Over SONET/SDH
White Paper A Global 500 financial services firm had the challenge to utilize readily available SONET/SDH bandwidth for the extension of disk mirroring to meet escalating data storage and BC requirements. Global implemented CIENA's CN 2000 that was designed to... [10 Apr 2008]
Disk Drive Vintage and Its Effect on Reliability
White Paper Field failure data for 3 disk drive families from 3 drive manufacturers is analyzed. The analyses illustrate the effects of design and manufacturing process improvements implemented throughout the drive's production life on the reliability of disk... [30 Jun 2008]
Disk-Based Backup and Restore Reaching the Next Level
White Paper This paper outlines conventional disk-based backup and restore methods and the paradigm shift needed to keep up with escalating data growth, shrinking backup windows, overburdened IT Administrators, and overtaxed IT budgets. [22 Jan 2007]
