Questions tagged [drive]
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Backup software that can split files to 3 separate disks
I have 3To of storage on a RAID5 configuration, and I want to setup a regular backup of these 3To of data on external disks that I would bring to a separate physical location (my office). I have 3 external drives of 1To each. I could of course use…
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Why am I getting drive critical warnings and how can I fix this?
I receive these emails (on my cPanel Linux Cent OS 5 Server) every day and haven't a clue what they mean or what to do;
Drive Warning: /dev/root (/) is 81% full
Drive Critical: /dev/vg00/var (/var) is 92% full
How can I sort this easily? I have…
James Anderson
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Why do Hard Drives have multiple platters?
From what I've read, the read/write heads over each platter move in unison, so why are there multiple platters?
Is data split over each platter, so that instead of reading, say, 40 bytes from one platter, 10 bytes from 4 platters can be read,…
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