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Harbinger · 06-23-2005, 08:43 PM

Hello to all!

I snagged an older M4100 from work as they were upgrading to one of the new, 2 TB models. It had a dead drive. The four drives in it were 80 GB IBM "DeathStars", and I put in a 120 GB Western Digital I had lying around and rebuilt the RAID. It now seems to work well.

Now for the questions...

1) I want to eventually replace all four drives with newer, bigger ones. Has anyone successfully broken the 137 GB limit?

2) There is one 128MB memory DIMM in the unit. Would upping the memory help its performance? What are the specs of the memory I could use?

3) Are there any special hardware "tricks" needed when upgrading drives and memory?

4) The unit is running SnapOS 3.x. I was told by the network admin at work that Quantum used to have certain OS upgrade files available to freely download. One of them was some Java file, a second was some file that allowed HTTPS: (but not HTTP: at the same time, this program was a "switch" I think), and there were some OS 3.x upgraders available. When the greedy SOBs at Adaptec bought the line, they took that software OFF-line, and now want to charge a "tech support per-incident fee" to get access. This seriously sucks. In fact, the net admin said that, if he'd known they changed their policy on what were freely-available files, he'd have bought a different manufacturer's product (!).

Does anyone know of a software repository where these formerly-free software(s) may still be downloaded?

I know these are a lot of questions, but net searches don't turn up much info on these boxes. I found this forum through a Google search, and the posters on here seem to know their stuff.

Best regards from a board n00b,
Harbinger

06-23-2005, 08:43 PM	#1
Harbinger Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dreamland Posts: 37	New Snap 4100 Owner-Upgrade Q's Hello to all! I snagged an older M4100 from work as they were upgrading to one of the new, 2 TB models. It had a dead drive. The four drives in it were 80 GB IBM "DeathStars", and I put in a 120 GB Western Digital I had lying around and rebuilt the RAID. It now seems to work well. Now for the questions... 1) I want to eventually replace all four drives with newer, bigger ones. Has anyone successfully broken the 137 GB limit? 2) There is one 128MB memory DIMM in the unit. Would upping the memory help its performance? What are the specs of the memory I could use? 3) Are there any special hardware "tricks" needed when upgrading drives and memory? 4) The unit is running SnapOS 3.x. I was told by the network admin at work that Quantum used to have certain OS upgrade files available to freely download. One of them was some Java file, a second was some file that allowed HTTPS: (but not HTTP: at the same time, this program was a "switch" I think), and there were some OS 3.x upgraders available. When the greedy SOBs at Adaptec bought the line, they took that software OFF-line, and now want to charge a "tech support per-incident fee" to get access. This seriously sucks. In fact, the net admin said that, if he'd known they changed their policy on what were freely-available files, he'd have bought a different manufacturer's product (!). Does anyone know of a software repository where these formerly-free software(s) may still be downloaded? I know these are a lot of questions, but net searches don't turn up much info on these boxes. I found this forum through a Google search, and the posters on here seem to know their stuff. Best regards from a board n00b, Harbinger Last edited by Harbinger; 06-24-2005 at 09:15 AM.