Here here for stellar CDW reps. I deal with two - one over-the-top awesome one, and another average-at-best that does CDW-G (Government). The awesome one can't do government accounts...
At least neither of them call me unless I ask for something first. Dave From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 8:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Home RAID enclosure recommendations? 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]<mailto:[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]<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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> > www.eaglemds.com<http://www.eaglemds.com/> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]<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]<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]<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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