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EMC Celerra File Server : Won't go back to the Celerra

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:27:56 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author leishirsute - After using a Network Appliance FAS270c, we have decided to stay with the NetApp system. Although the Celerra scales, it's write poor performance is poor compared to the NetApp box. Also, the software is not integrated with EMC's other s/w products...

Dell PowerVault 110 DLT Drive: Affordable Enterprise-Class Backup in a small Package

Fri, 2 Apr 2004 23:31:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author vemartin - In the increasingly demanding world of Information Technology (IT) network/server management, the advantages of automating (fast) backup processes internal to the server, or across the network, are a necessity. More and more information (data) is the...

Dell PowerVault 120T DLT Autoloader: Dell PowerVault 120T DLT-7000 Autoloader; Ho-Hum Performance From a High Priced Contender

Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:20:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author vemartin - In the increasingly demanding world of Information Technology (IT) network/server management, the advantages of automating (fast) backup processes across the network are a necessity. More and more information (data) is the engine upon which corporate...

Horrible support

Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:36:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author cland - I only have one Certance drive, so I don't have experience whether or not this problem is common, but I can tell you that they do not respond as they should to defective equipment. I purchased the drive and had to send it back for RMA. Was told the...

EMC Celerra File Server : A poor choice for CIFS fileserving

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:28:24 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author wrhn - Caveat: This review refers to a Celerra SE used as a CIFS fileserver only. I have no experience with NFS on the Celerra. This information relates to a Celerra SE with DART operating system updated to latest revision as at September 2003. I supported an...

EMC Celerra File Server : Excellent NAS solution for large environments

Wed, 21 May 2003 23:44:24 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cborowski - Our first NAS project resulted in selecting a Celerra file server with a Symmetrix backend to fit the need for both our NAS needs and our direct-attached servers. It took a few weeks to implement and migrate all of our data over from separate locally...

EMC CLARiiON FC5700: EMC still lost

Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:45:03 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author rustyzen - I figured I would update my previous review because the disappointment comes once again from EMC. Since my last review, I have become fairly proficient maintaining and adding on to the SAN myself. We have chosen an outside service company for hardware...

Not a good enterprise NAS solution

Thu, 6 Feb 2003 18:40:20 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author wrwindsor - You cannot manage quota trees or quota groups -- quota settings are per-user and they are applied system-wide through the GUI (web) interface. You cannot change ownership of files copied onto the system via CIFS.

This unit does not support...

Compaq StorageWorks TL891 DLT Mini-Library: Old workhorse

Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:04:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author teufelhund - I run Arcserve 2000 on a Compaq DL380. It attaches to my TL891(120876-B22) via Compaq's 2 channel Tape Library SCSI interface. I also have a Library Expansion Module (120877-B21) and an extra magazine of 10 tapes. This combination gives me a little over...

"Snap - As Good As Your Backup Tapes" (tm)

Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:36:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zigylplixn - I have dealt with four deaths of three separate 4100 servers. Each ended up with a complete rebuild of the server and restores from tape. The servers would die without warning and take hours to rebuild/restore. Tech support is useless at best (web...

IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS): Good for large SAN

Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:01:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jcgrove - We currently have a 9TB shark connected to HA SAN comprised of Sun and IBM Equipment. The setup of the IBM AIX clients was a snap, the Sun Systems were a little harder but they work great now too.

The box we have is the F20 model. It has 16GB...

EMC Celerra File Server : Celerra vs. NetApp

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:11:23 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sbonds - The Celerra is EMC's entry into the ever competitive NAS (Network Attached Storage) market. With this, they go head-to-head with the industry leader, Network Appliance (NetApp).

The Celerra architecture lends itself much better to scaling up...

IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS): ESS - Great for use with AIX, Netware, NT

Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:46:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mfrye - We use the IBM Enterprise Storage Server for storage against Oracle, Lawson, and various internal applications. The ESS is connected with NT, NetWare, and AIX. Our support engineer was extremely helpful especially with our fiber connections to NT...

Money Well Spent

Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:19:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author dsmoore - SNAP Server 1000

I purchased a SNAP server almost a year ago and it has been in continuous use ever since. In that time I have been extremely happy with it, and when I say happy I mean it works exactly as it’s supposed to without any...

"C" rating drive

Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:19:07 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author rshiroma - I purchased this tape drive to archive our library of files that is slowly inundating our HP drive.

While the Seagate DAT drives are only HALF the price of the HP and Exabyte drives, one has to wonder where the sacrifice was made.

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Magstar 3494 and 3590: A Place to Store All Your Important Ones and Zeros

Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:18:01 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author mcgina - Hal and Sal are the tape library robots that live in the Magstar 3494 tape library which is part of my backup solution at IBM. As long as they don't get confused and start slinging tapes around or beating themselves against the glass trying to escape,...

Maxtor MaxAttach NAS 4000: Easy But Unreliable

Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:23:54 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author tuffy702 - We purchased two NAS 4000s to act as our primary file storage system. We are a small (35 users) branch office of a medium sized software company. Being a software company, we need a large amount of reliable, redundant network storage space. This storage...

SureStore DAT8i failed me

Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:59:57 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author taurustaurus - This review may apply to any SureStore DAT drive since it relates to the software HP ships with the drives.

HP SureStore DAT8i disaster recovery can fail on Windows NT Server 4.0

This is a notification to other owners of HP...

A good substitution of old HP DAT8

Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:16:44 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author 200067 - The subsystem of reserve copying is, certainly, necessary part of any information system, whether it is home computer or corporate net. Only such subsystem can supply safety of data when errors, malfunctions or acts of nature.

This device is...

Data storage, but not use

Sun, 4 Mar 2001 21:48:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author skeve - We were int he market for a better data storage method, and Snap seemed to be the answer. It was the obvious choice, being the pioneer in the field, it should have all the bugs worked out, and the price was too good to pass up. For most people the Snap...

Snap is the perfect server add-on.

Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:50:27 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author epinburk - The quantum Snap Server is everything that it's touted as. You can visit the Snap Appliances web site here: http://www.snapserver.com/

Easy to set-up.

I was a skeptic. I didn't think true plug-and-play existed anymore really. I took the...

IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS): IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS): What A Combo With Our NUMA!

Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:31:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author sweetcece - Shortly our company will be in full blown testing of our imaging system, and the mainstay of this entire operation is the IBM Enterprise Storage Server(ESS) with our NumaQ-2000 storage server.

We purchased the IBM Enterprise Storage...

Spare your servers. Buy a SNAP!

Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:00:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author KickMe - I was, at first, quite skeptical of the advisability of storing any important data on a SNAP server. The unit didn't have a traditional operating system like Novell or Windows on it. It had only one network card, making bandwidth a possible issue, even...

StorageTek 9175 Disk Array: Simple Yet, Clever Design.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 06:35:23 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jmrm5 - The StorageTek 9175 Disk Array subsystem is a truly formidable machine. It offers the end user performance, connectivity, and most importantly scalability at a price which is really not that expensive considering the features which are offered.
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Dell PowerVault 720N: Cool idea. Poor follow-through.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:31:59 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author blockwo - The first thing to know about this unit is, you can't buy new ones any more, and you can't upgrade existing ones. Dell has quietly (and suddenly!) discontinued the entire line. So, if you're looking at one of these, you're probably looking at a...