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Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST): puzzled over port number assignements
I am using the tool Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) v9.6.61001 to display the current status of several disks that are built-in and/or connected to a Lenovo W701 Model 4323. The status window ...
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Amazon s3 as backup and remote file access [closed]
Looking to use Amazon s3 as storage backup and remote file access.
What are any pitfalls I should be aware of?
Any comparisons between Cloudberry and Dragon Disk as a backup client?
And has anyone ...
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Multiple mounts under a mount on a linux server
I have a server that I mount some storage (LUNs) under. The first mount is
LUN0(20Gb) as /database
then under that I mount
LUN1(10Gb) as /database/logs
so in essence I can't mount /database/logs ...
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needing storage integrity (write/read) test - for BASH
In need of shell scripts / bash commands to verify data integrity of local harddrives, usb-drives, etc, ...
Like the famous www.heise.de/download/h2testw; or something that is at least common within ...
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Why does 1KB contain 1024 bytes when 1KB = 1000 bytes? [closed]
Why does 1KB equal 1024 bytes? I know that 1KB also stores 1000 bytes.
That is, I've been told that 1Kb equals 1024 bytes, but my professor says that it's 1000 bytes and that Linux doesn't use the ...
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Portable HTML5 local storage
I've been developing client-side applications using HTML and Javascript, and I've been trying to find a way to automatically save local storage data to a flash drive or other storage device. Is it ...
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Synching two different USB drives not connected simultaneously
I'm trying to find a software that can handle my requirement. I have a notebook that I use at work and Home. I have an external usb drive here at work and another one at home. I would like to find a ...
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Media centre wireless drops
got a problem with my media centre setup, hoping someone can help!
Hardware:
dLink Boxee Box
1TB USB harddrive
Apple Airport
All my media is on the hdd and the Boxee Box is connected to the hdd ...
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Stop Windows 7 from accessing or writing to hard drive unless “told” to by me? (More info inside…)
A confusing question, perhaps, but bear with me.
I have two internal HDDs set up in a RAID0 array which I use as mass storage. I access the drive very infrequently (once a day at most) and so I have ...
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Are there any USB flash drives or SD cards which use RAID or redundant storage for additional reliability?
I'm looking to get a fault-tolerant USB flash drive, which saves data to multiple independent locations, whether using RAID or some other means to back up data. Has a product like this ever been ...
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Is it possible to have a wireless in-house NAS with wireless data transfer rates of equivalent to SATA speeds?
Basically I would like to know, if it is possible to set up an NAS in my house to be accessed wirelessly, that can reach equivalent real-life data transfer speeds to USB 3.0 or an internal SATA hard ...
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Transfer Raid Drives to External Enclosure
I have 2 raid disks (a grand total of 360GB) in my laptop. I'm fast running out of space and want to install new drives. I've a pretty good idea how to do this.
My question is what can I do with the ...
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Access my router's gateway network?
I have 2 routers in my place.
Main Router (Connected to the Internet) - 192.168.1.1
Secondery Router (Connected to the Main Router) - 192.168.0.1
I have a Network Storage Device and few Shared ...
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What are the risks of partitioning drives?
I have always been told that I should back up my data before partitioning drives, but what are the reasons why the data would be lost?
Most of the time when partitioning drives, I take my largest ...
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What are some essential applications of partitioning a hard drive? [closed]
I would like to know more about why one would bother making partitions on a hard drive. I understand that you might want to dual boot your machine, but are there more interesting applications to ...
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1T C:drive full with only 87GB of files — why?
I have a Lenovo desktop running Win 7 with a Hitachi 1 terabyte hard drive and 8GB of RAM. I also have a WD My Passport 1T external drive running as backup. I'm now receiving messages that
the ...
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Free or Open Solution for Storing and Charting CSV data
I'm presently storing CSV files, combining them, opening them in open office, creating pivot tables and then generating charts from the spreadsheet.
I've looked at OOBase, but appending csv files to ...
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fdisk can't find USB storage
A problem with USB storage in Linux has cost me more than one day: dmesg says USB is detected, but fdisk -l can't find USB storage.
My kernel is 2.4.32.
Infomation about this USB storage can also be ...
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Tools for block diagrams / listings of multi-layered storage virtualization with LVM and LUKS?
When multiple storage virtualization systems are used together, it can be complicated and time-consuming to gain an understanding of the structure of the various relationships involved. What tools ...
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the effect of different disk during the creation of raid groups
"200MB/s drive and a 150MB/s drive your saying in RAID 1 for example the maximun read speed would be 300MB/s, not 350MB/s" ? How did you come to this solution ?
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2.1TB limit on BIOS?
While checking out this 3TB 7200RPM drive as a candidate for my hardware RAID array, I saw the product video and at about 1:40 into the video, the guy says that BIOS can't handle more than 2.1TB of ...
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Is DVDs safe to store data for future? [closed]
I've started collecting movies, which is the safest way to store the collected movies? Is it safe to store in DVDs or what should I prefer??
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Can I set up a RAID 5 with a bunch of drives of different sizes?
I currently have 3 1TB drives, a couple 500GB ones and some 750GB ones. Can I put them all in a RAID 5 configuration or do they need to be of same size?
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What is a good way to back up 20GB of photos? [closed]
I am considering loading the photos to a hard disk. However, if I lose the hard disk, then I lose all the photos.
Is there a web application that allows for efficient and reliable storage of so many ...
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Send files between two online servers?
Is there a tool which I can user to send files between two remote servers? For example, I have hosting at hostgator and I create a directory there. Then I use that tool to send files from some other ...
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DFS for a several small clusters over WAN
My friends and I all have TBs on our system(s). None of us have any full backups which are geographically distributed however, because at that amount of data, solutions such as Dropbox, S3, et al. are ...
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SATA connector position on a hard disk
I have a external SATA drive enclosure that connects via USB to a PC/Mac and it accepts a bare SATA drive being slotted directly into the enclosure, much like a hot swappable disk you would find in a ...
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What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?
This question was inspired by How to store and preserve lots of data?
There have been another similar questions, but none with this type of criteria.
This is two questions in one.
How do you store ...
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How to store and preserve lots of data?
I have many DVDs with movies and games, they are getting old and dusty, some of them are damaged. And I have more than 300 GB of general files in my PC. I want to store and preserve all of my data and ...
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DIY DAS enclosure [closed]
I'm planning to build a "dumb disk enclosure" (ie containing just disks and power supply) for my home server. Both since I'm out of expansion space in my server case, and part because I need a new ...
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Which RAID level gives me protection against bit errors?
I might confuse things with parity here, but does any of the RAID levels except RAID2 employ any means against silent bit corruption in the data? What about checksumming? I am not talking about ...
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Can I move a drive from a hardware-controlled RAID 1 mirror into a “dumb” system?
I'm considering a Sans Digital eSata RAID enclosure to expand the capacity of a system with no room for more internal disks.
I would put two 2TB drives in the enclosure and set up RAID 1 mirroring.
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Unable to install mass storage devices
For some reason, I am unable to install mass storage devices on my Windows 7 x64 machine. I see the error from the image below.
If I point directly at the usbstor.inf driver, I still get the error. ...
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How much CPU power and RAM will I need in a 10 disk array?
I'm planning to build a low-power storage server with many drives.
Can I put an Atom based board into this machine? Or even ARM? Will a weak CPU cut into my throughput? What about RAM?
I am planning ...
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windows xp, “lost” memory in c:\windows folder
I'm running windows xp on this laptop, and experiencing something "weird".
My (minor, system) hard drive was once again getting full again. (it's a 30 GB drive). So I started to look into where the ...
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Timed/Periodical automatic uploads to DropBox?
I'm wondering if there are any tools/apps out that allow you to; select a specific set of files/folders -> select a specific time (every 3 hours for example) -> automatically upload/sync the selected ...
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Is there a performance hit to local file access with dropbox?
I've been considering using dropbox for a few reasons, since it seems to solve a lot of potential headaches. However, one thing I didn't find a lot of information on were the drawbacks from a ...
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My 4GB Micro SD card only allows me to use 1GB
My phone came with a 4GB Micro SD card. On the card it lists that 3GB goes to 'Muve Music' which is Cricket's music program, and I get 1GB.. Well, I don't pay for Muve Music, so why waste the space?
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What back-up solution that can share is fit for my multi-media situation?
my husband and I are looking for a solution of storing files and backing these up, and sharing songs in our iTunes Library and films we buy online. We are going to purchase a projector so we want this ...
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Hp ProLian DL160 g5 error using dvd recovery
on an HP ProLiant DL160 G5 Storage Server in which we have changed some components (due to previous fault), when i try to reinstall the system via dvd recovery i get:
"An invalid logical drive ...
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Shared storage that doesn't involve installing software for the sharee
Is there any storage provider that can allow shared storage without the person allocated shared rights having to install any software?
The reason for this request is that I wish my father who is a ...
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Is the lock mechanism on an SD card hardware, firmware, or software (driver,OS) enforced?
Where is the lock to read-only mode enforced with SD cards? Is this done inside the card itself physically, or in the firmware of readers, or in the OS? (Some other place?)
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LVM: Removing a 'Zombie' (Unavailable) VG
I have an LVM related problem. We have a server that 'learned' about a foreign volume group through a hard drive that was briefly attached. Now, with that hard drive gone again, all LVM utilities ...
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Windows software that display storage device using numbers and not letters
Is there a software (in Windows) that can display storage devices (and its partitions) based on numbers and not letters?
From my understanding, Windows use A:\ and B:\ for floppy drive, C:\ onwards ...
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File Storage NAS - Do i need to replicate in addition to RAID 5
Im going to buy a NAS server soon. Im pretty sure i know the one Im going to get.
It can hold 4 hard drives.
If I RAID 5 then I will have about 8gigs of storage.
I understand if there is mechanical ...
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Azure Storage for Mac?
Can anyone recommend a good Azure Storage Explorer for Mac?
I downloaded CyberDuck but does not seem to connect to Azure at all.
For some reason it puts an @ character in the URL. eg. ...
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Corruption-resistant file system that works across Windows and OSX?
I'm planning to build an external RAID-based media drive, and I'd like to use it across both my Windows and OSX machines. exFAT works for both operating systems, but from what I've heard, it's much ...
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Do fanless NAS devices exist? If not, can I build one myself?
I'm interested in finding a fanless NAS with at least two drives for silence and reliable storage (RAID 1), but I haven't been able to find anything.
Do these exist? Or does having a CPU in the NAS ...
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How to (re)use different-size external disks [closed]
I accumulated several external usb drives over time. Now, I end up with the following drives:
Western Digital 3.5" 1TB USB 2 (less than 1 year old)
Iomega 3.5" 320GB USB2 (2+ year old)
Custom built ...
