They are an excellent source which we use as well. Sincerely, Jeffrey and Mary Jane Harris VIPCS -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 1:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations?
If you already know what you need, try http://www.provantage.com - great prices, fast shipping, and I've never had a problem with them. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:32, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't really use CDW for much of anything anymore. It feels to me as if > they're pushing product and not solutions. I get great service for my Dell > rep. For the misc items I can't get from Dell, I've had decent service from > PC Mall, and then CDW. > > I work in an accounting firm, my CDW rep knows this. He called me last week > trying to explain IRS Section 179 depreciation rules in an effort to get me > to buy product before year end. I was nonplussed by the effort... > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wow - what a coincidence, our CDW rep recommended Buffalo as the product >> that many of their small business clients were using... >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Jonathan Link <[email protected]> >> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 12:03:46 PM >> Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? >> >> When I was looking at SAN offerings, I somehow got into a conference call >> with Buffalo and my CDW rep. The Buffalo agent suggested that I try their >> new SAN offering out to see if it would work. I asked if they had a trial >> program. He said no, but, I kid you not, said that CDW had a fantastic >> return policy, and suggested I buy a couple of units and try them out for 30 >> days. >> >> I was just stunned, as was my CDW rep. I never did take CDW up on >> Buffalo's offer on their behalf, and haven't purchased another Buffalo >> product, since[1]. >> >> [1] I never purchased the Terastation II we had, my predecessor did, and >> upon my review of security I discovered that he had left user home >> directories wide open to everyone. All of the partners had data related to >> firm business, personnel files, evaluations, etc. Needless to say that was >> buttoned up immediately upon discovery, with a migration for all other uses >> following soon thereafter. >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Don Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Well, from my new experience with Buffalo support and the performance of >>> the >>> unit I installed, my .02 is not to get a Buffalo product. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: Devin Meade <[email protected]> >>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 11:48:15 AM >>> Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? >>> >>> I was planning on looking into this after Christmas but here are a few >>> things I have run into. >>> >>> 1. The WD "Y" drives (the TLR limited, RAID specific ones ... both RE2 >>> and RE3 version) performed much slower than Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000, >>> by far. This was on WS2003 32bit, WS2008R2 and ESXi 4 using Adaptec >>> 3405 Sata RAID controllers. The adaptec 3405 / Hitachi Ultrastar >>> combo has proven itself for us with ~100 users. >>> >>> 2. For another need (5 users, small business that is) I was going to >>> look into the Terrastation but find many comments of slowness and I >>> don't like the "OS" being on the HDD's. But they have a really cool >>> neat-o feature that if you buy two of these you can set up live >>> replication. I was considering this for my Mom and Pop's business - >>> so it's a little more heavy duty than "plain home use". But the price >>> is not much higher than the adaptec controller above and HDD's. IIRC >>> they had another feature that you could attach a USB drive for backup. >>> >>> 3. Because of #2, I was looking at the Netgear products. Netgear had >>> some sort of replication, I forget what it is, but I don't know if >>> it's as whiz-bang neat-o as the Buffalo implementation. >>> >>> 4. All my home machines have RAID of some sort using *GASP* Promise >>> raid controllers and old hard drives that I just had laying around! >>> But alas I have outgrown the capacity and want to upgrade to something >>> else. >>> >>> 5. I may just get the cheapo USB/eSata RAID 1 array (Fantom G-Force >>> MegaDisk) and be done with it! >>> >>> Again, I was going to look at this in about a week, but there ya go. >>> >>> hth and Merry Christmas all, >>> Devin >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > "Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or >>> > regretted >>> >not messing with it)?" >>> > >>> > Or, for that matter, regretted messing with it? >>> > >>> > (I'm sure it was implied, but I figured it worthwhile to ask the >>> >pseudo-obvious.) >>> > >>> > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE >>> > Technology Coordinator >>> > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA >>> > [email protected] >>> > www.eaglemds.com >>> > >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] >>> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 12:15 PM >>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>> > Subject: RE: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? >>> > >>> > Wow, I can get 4 1TB drives for $64.99? ;) >>> > >>> > I've been hearing lately about "Time Limited Error Recovery" (TLER) >>> > feature >>> > in WD drives, which is disabled by default in their "desktop drives". >>> > It >>> > should be enabled to allow the RAID controller to handle recovery, else >>> > the >>> > RAID controller will timeout the drive and drop it from the set. I've >>> > had a >>> > pair of WD10EADS green drives in RAID 1 for about a year with no >>> > trouble, >>> > but I'm wondering if I should try to tweak the TLER before there is >>> > trouble. >>> > WD provides no means of tweaking it, but the community has provided a >>> > utility, WDTLER, that can tweak it on some drives but not others. >>> > >>> > Anyone else using WD desktop drives in RAID and messed with TLER (or >>> > regretted not messing with it)? >>> > >>> > Carl >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] >>> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 11:52 AM >>> > To: NT System Admin Issues >>> > Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? >>> > >>> > 3TB Raid on the cheap: >>> > >>> > 1x SansDigital 4-Bay enclosure (eSATA or USB) in raid 5 - $169.99 >>> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111159 >>> > >>> > 4x Western Digital Green 1TB drives - $64.99 >>> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136490 >>> > >>> > >>> > --Matt Ross >>> > Ephrata School District >>> > >>> > >>> > ----- Original Message ----- >>> > From: Jim Slattery >>> > [mailto:[email protected]] >>> > Sent: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 >>> > 05:56:55 -0800 >>> > >>> >> I recently started taking a lot of photos and videos, and I'm >>> >> realizing >>> > that >>> >> my current storage solution at home isn't going to cut it very soon. >>> >> >>> >> Does anyone have a recommendation for a good price/performance RAID >>> >> enclosure (or populated solution) for home use? I'd like to have 3-4TB >>> >> available if possible. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, and Happy Holidays! >>> >> >>> >> Jim >>> > >>> > >>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> > >>> > --- >>> > To manage subscriptions click here: >>> >http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> > or send an email to [email protected] >>> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> > >>> > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is >>> > CONFIDENTIAL >>> >and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, >>> > disclose, >>> >or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message may >>> > contain >>> >information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is >>> > intended only >>> >for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in >>> > the >>> >message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please >>> > notify the >>> >sender immediately and delete this material from your computer. Do not >>> > deliver, >>> >distribute or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or >>> > take any >>> >action in reliance on the information that it contains. >>> > >>> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> > >>> > --- >>> > To manage subscriptions click here: >>> >http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> > or send an email to [email protected] >>> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> > >>> > >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to [email protected] >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to [email protected] >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
