LOL I've had ONE CDW rep over the years that was stellar. I inherited him, and only because of the high level of service he provided did I not go elsewhere.
The others have been conversely hideous. *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Martin Blackstone <[email protected]>wrote: > My CDW rep and I have an agreement. > > You don’t call me unless I call you first and I will buy from you > > > > *From:* Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:32 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? > > > > 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? 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