This press release is from storagenewsletter.com Highly Reliable Systems Shipping Backup and DR NAS Appliance With removable drives, starting at $1,889 Highly Reliable Systems, Inc. is shipping mirroring backup NAS appliances based on Windows Storage Server called the BNAS 401 Series.The units are intended to allow customers to create their own Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR)…
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Modern SATA hard drives have internal counters for soft errors, number of hours run, power cycles etc. These counters were originally intended to help predict hard drive failure. The SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) data can be accessed through our NetSWAP interface and may be available using various open source software for direct attached…
Come see us at CompTIA Breakaway 2012 in Las Vegas July 30-Aug 2nd . See our new NetSwap Plus Mirroring NAS platforms used to supplement your cloud strategy with an on-site mirrored removable drive. Also on display will be the new BNAS 401C roll your own BDR platform.
Saving money on backup software is always a welcome idea. The backup that comes with Windows Server 2008 can work for some people and can create a “snapshot” of your server hard drive to standard .VHD files. The software works well with either our DAS or NAS equipment but if you’re using Virtual machines on…
With all the talk about backup to the cloud, we wanted to take a moment to discuss the encryption that is always part of that backup strategy. Most encryption methods assume the underlying hardware is good. But given that as many as 3-6% of hard drives fail in any given year, it’s important to ask…