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Hitachi HW100 limitations

Byetzion 19/03/2006

Not too long ago I have purchased a brand new Hitachi HW100 Workgroup Storage. 14+1 400GB SATA disks, dual-interface, each holding two fiber ports (2Gb/s LC). A nice machine. However, two limitations I have discovered are clouding my day: 1. It supports only Raid0 and Raid5. It will not allow me no-parity Raid, aka, Raid1….

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Microsoft Exchange, data replication

Byetzion 27/11/2005

Here’s a little issue. If you were to replicate MS Exchange DB from one machine to another, how/what would you have done? The scenario goes as follows: You have your own domain, and you use, for your own core services AD and MS Exchange for the whole organization. While AD supports some built-in replication, so…