| Sys Admin Extraordinaire |

2010-04-29 Initial Post

I've never had the need for something like this, so didn't even know that a product like this existed for consumers. The specs and reviews look decent. The only big issue I see from the specs is that the interface is USB 2.0, which is SLOW. It'd take several hours (probably most of a day) to back up 1 TB over USB 2.0. I haven't checked to see if there are similar products that have a faster interface.

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2009-12-09 Initial Post

I haven’t been able to find any one standard for measuring IOPS (like something from ANSI or ISO), so it seems that vendors can use different variables to test IOPS, thereby attempting to make their numbers look better than that of their competitors’. (more…)

2009-06-18 Initial Post

My experience working with EMC has not been very good. It’s like a big bureaucracy. To deploy our NS20s, there were several different EMC employees involved. (more…)

For the past week I’ve been trying to find a product that would do the following:

1.) Boot older Dell PowerEdge servers off a USB drive or CD.
2.) Recognize and access the RAID volumes.
3.) Let me run some type of DoD-level disk wiping utility on the RAID volumes.

We have several older servers that we’d like to give away or trash, but need to wipe the drives before doing so.

It didn’t seem like an obscure request, but after doing a few searches, I was surprised to not find anything that really met my needs. (more…)