![]() This is a vast improvement and will allow me to free up some primary SAN storage for other things, like building out my vCloud environment.īut before I do that, I need to finish cleaning up the environment. I was looking at using a 500 gig sata solid state drive. Two (2) 500GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drives (8MB cache each) Seagate ST3500820AS. Current configuration is as follows regarding drives. Now to copy everything back to the ix2 with more space than I had before. I am looking for information regarding what I can replace the drive with. I went one step further and upgraded to v3.2.6 of the firmware via the software updates screens. It took two tries (as described in article #3 above), but my ix2-200 is happily rebuilding with a full 2.7TBs of disk space. The Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 Network Storage, Cloud Edition offers. However, I used article #2's instructions to wipe the hard drives of ALL partitions while they were in the Iomega ix2, saving me the need to remove them. 750GB Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 2.5-inch SATA Hard Disk Drive (7200rpm, 16MB cache). ![]() This worked as described using the firmware available on that page. So, I decided to upgrade the firmware of the ix2-200 to that listed in article #3 above. V2 of the firmware for an ix2-200 only supports 2TB partitions. Removal of the partition forces a new partition, once more only 2TB in size but no way to configure drive protection.įollowing article #2 above did not help much (tip: only follow #2 if you feel very comfortable in Linux and specifically LVM commands). The 2.7TB were not accessible even after resetting drive protection mechanisms, both from the v2.x interface and the command line. A little slow, but still works and saves me space on my primary storage. However, for ISOs and other items I also store on blu-ray, the ix2-200 works just fine. If I want enterprise class storage, I use my FC SAN. I have had Western Digital and Seagate both fail on me. Some people like Seagate, some do not I am on the fence. This implied I could go to the store and get some, which I did. Unfortunately, they are no longer available. This 3x upgrade seemed to be feasible as Iomega sold 3TB drives for the ix2-200. Since I like the mirrored drives in the ix2, I chose to get 3TB ones as a massive upgrade. In effect, 1TB is just not enough for everything I have. In effect, my ISO store had grown so large that the SMB fileserver was exhausted so I moved it all to the ix2, which exhausted its disk storage as well. However, this is about my Iomega ix2-200. I will be upgrading this later as well with a 10G network card and the latest RHEV. I also use an 8TB iSCSI server that also acts as my RHEV server. While technically not part of my vCloud environment, I use an Iomega ix2-200 as my tertiary storage for ISOs used within my vCloud environment.
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