Comments on: Bleg These http://gentlenews.com/2005/05/16/bleg-these/ Invalidating people's opinions and personal sentiments since 1981. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Matt Stephenson http://gentlenews.com/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1583 Matt Stephenson Wed, 18 May 2005 00:46:43 +0000 http://gentlenews.com/archives/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1583 Well, it has a good review on the araid drive packs, which are rather transparent to operating systems since they just consist of a simple hardware raid mirror config with little laptop drives. I like the SAN at my office, it works very well and backs up to tape nightly using Tivoli. It also works well with sharing data across our HP servers, AIX machines, and mainframes (z/os). Well, it has a good review on the araid drive packs, which are rather transparent to operating systems since they just consist of a simple hardware raid mirror config with little laptop drives.
I like the SAN at my office, it works very well and backs up to tape nightly using Tivoli. It also works well with sharing data across our HP servers, AIX machines, and mainframes (z/os).

]]> By: Josh-Daniel Davis http://gentlenews.com/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1582 Josh-Daniel Davis Wed, 18 May 2005 00:28:20 +0000 http://gentlenews.com/archives/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1582 Are you using USB2, or usb1? USB2 should be OK, assuming the drive is a high performer. Seagate should be good. otherwise, external SCSI disk or tape. I wouldn't use ONE set of disks, because if you perished in a fire at work, or got into a wreck and they flew out a window on the same day the office sprinklers went of.... For tape, only LTO-2 would be big enough to consider. Otherwise, you could set up an IDE or SCSI array on linux with gigabit or 10gigabit ethernet links, or fibre or target mode scsi, and use that as a portable backup server. Are you using USB2, or usb1? USB2 should be OK, assuming the drive is a high performer. Seagate should be good.

otherwise, external SCSI disk or tape.
I wouldn’t use ONE set of disks, because if you perished in a fire at work, or got into a wreck and they flew out a window on the same day the office sprinklers went of….

For tape, only LTO-2 would be big enough to consider.

Otherwise, you could set up an IDE or SCSI array on linux with gigabit or 10gigabit ethernet links, or fibre or target mode scsi, and use that as a portable backup server.

]]> By: Farris http://gentlenews.com/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1581 Farris Tue, 17 May 2005 02:21:15 +0000 http://gentlenews.com/archives/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1581 Matt: Thanks for the link, but Tom's rarely provides any useful info for folks who work primarily with Linux. I'll check out some hitachi drives. Matt: Thanks for the link, but Tom’s rarely provides any useful info for folks who work primarily with Linux.

I’ll check out some hitachi drives.

]]> By: Matt Stephenson http://gentlenews.com/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1580 Matt Stephenson Tue, 17 May 2005 00:47:52 +0000 http://gentlenews.com/archives/2005/05/16/bleg-these/#comment-1580 Tom's hardware had an article a few months back on this: http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050225/index.html but if you just looking at drives, i've had much luck with hitachi's Tom’s hardware had an article a few months back on this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050225/index.html

but if you just looking at drives, i’ve had much luck with hitachi’s

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