@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @JaredBusch said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: @scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676: Confirmed, snipping the orange wire (I needed help as I can't see orange) did the job, drive showed up immediately. Congrats! I wasn't sure you'd be up for the task. A lot of people are afraid to make permanent changes to their equipment. You can't believe how much pushback I got from @Dominica and @pchiodo about snipping a simple cable on a $2 SATA extension part! For me, it was a no brainer once knowing what it was. But they were up for spending hundreds of dollars to avoid snipping that wire. And it isn't even hard wired to the power supply or anything it's literally just a SATA extension piece! lol Like $2 tops if you don't shop around. I would have been with @Dominica and @pchiodo on this. Electric scares me. I would think snipping the wire would cause a spark while I wasn't home and come home to a few burning cinders. That was mentioned as a concern. lol FFS people need to just STFU if they don’t know how electricity works. That was exactly my point and why I wouldn't have done it. As for STFU about well, that is where we differ. Those concerns could be alleviated with an explanation of why it would not be an issue. For electrons to flow you need a circuit. If you cut the wire you don't have a circuit anymore and because of that you don't have any electricity flowing. Since there is no electricity, there can't be any sparks. If you just cut the wire but don't remove it, then one end can come in contact with the chassis and then you have a circuit and electricity flowing. Modern switched power supplies (as in your computer) have short-circuit protection. So nothing would happen except that 3.3V will go down to 0V. So if there is anything in your computer that need 3.3V power from the power supply, it will not get it. If you had something else producing 3.3V (for instance a battery) and you'd short-circuit that, then it can get cause a fire. Just because it's only 3.3V doesn't mean anything. And sparks is not a problem unless you're in an explosive environment. The problem is that a short-circuit cause increased current running in the wire. That current will turn into heat. That heat causes things to melt and catch fire. And that's how you burn down a house. Also nice to know is that any electrical circuit inside a computer is low voltage, 12V or below. It can't kill you no matter what you do. It's the same voltage as you have in an ordinary car battery. The only way to get into trouble with a computer is by disassembling the power supply. There you have lethal voltage. Thank you for the explanation. Very helpful.

I haven't seen any difference between the Prodesk and Elitedesk from a workability POV. But the Elitedesk do come with US support and generally don't have to dick around much with L1 support when calling in. I also think they come with a 3 yr warranty by default... when you add that to the Prodesk, they costs come close to the same, so if you're considering 3 year warranty - I'd go Elitedesk.

@scottalanmiller said in Blank Screen After Fedora 30 Update to 5.3.5 Kernel on Dell Inspiron Laptop: Issue returned for the last two weeks even on Fedora 31. Luckily the old F30 kernel was still there because of the lock and continued to work. But the 5.4 kernel came out today and it works again. I've had no issues again

@gjacobse said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc: @DustinB3403 said in Designing for tech startup: Network, AD, Backup etc: I suppose you could use Storage Spaces Direct (all windows across the entire thing) but I wouldn't consider SSD at all mature nor production ready, especially at this scale. Thanks, had not heard of this. DataOn solutions fully support this and vice versa. They are experienced with this kind of scale and much larger.

@Dashrender said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5": @manxam said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5": It's not uncommon at all. Your other drives are most likely to fail during a rebuild due to the added stress of continual access during this process. That's what makes something like RAID 5 on spinning rust so scary. If all of the drives in the array are of similar age and from the same batch, I'd plan on swapping them all within the next while as each successive rebuild takes its toll on the remaining drives. Agreed - and double check those backups. I have doubled and tripled checked. Did a couple restores today with single files and also entire VM's. (Currently using Veeam)

Yes, if you are setting physical ports to a VLAN, then they are acting like a physically different switch on those ports. So attaching another physical switch to one of those ports would make it a switch on that VLAN.

@zachary715 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II: Just curious what role this server will be playing... Web server

@scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @Jimmy9008 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @scottalanmiller said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: @travisdh1 said in Dell MD1220 RAID 5 Rebuild Question: That makes a little more sense. They've negotiated a deal with Microsoft from the sounds of it. No, way, way more likely they just figured out how hard it is to get caught. I totally doubt anything like that is going on here. I have been told our annual budget for licensing which we pay is in the region of £600,000. Either way, not my problem Wow. But, sounds like only that high because they don't know what they are using, lol. The only way to get licensing truly down is to know what you use. Someone is both ignoring what is used, but also encouraging unlimited use. Both things set MS up to just keep making it more and more expensive. It's a trick, sounds easy, but makes one lazy licensing person encourage not keeping licensing lean - basically giving Microsoft the power to charge anything that they want down the road. Yeah, not your problem, but definitely a symptom of management issues and a lack of clear thinking. If they are truly paying their bills, my guess is a licensing "specialist" who has created their own job and knows if MS isn't used heavily, their job would go away, so is doing stuff to encourage you to lock in MS so that that specialist can't be eliminated. Basically creating their own job. Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you said. It's just not my issue. I still get to buy shiny new toys

@Jimmy9008 said in VLAN on Dell N4064 Stacked: Im guessing 'U' is fine. As I want vLAN2 to pass traffic where the device has already set vlan2 in its NIC. If the LAG is set to 'T', all traffic will be set to vlan2, right? Even when from vLan1/default... I think it's better to tag every vlan in both ends. Then you can be certain traffic ends up on the same vlan on the other switch stack.

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: @wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray: Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much. That'll slow things down. Swapping RAM or him being out of the country? Being out of hte country. OK lol. I thought that is what you meant.

@Pete-S said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: @PhlipElder said in DELL PowerEdge T410 - Memory Configuration Issues: As a rule, the primary slot in each channel should be populated. So, 4 sticks per CPU. Make sure Memory RAS settings are default and not stripe or mirror. That may be part of the problem. Make sure the sticks are in the primary slot for each channel which is usually a different colour than the secondary and furthest from the CPU. T410 is old 5500 series chipset which is triple channel, so I don't think you gain anything with 4 per CPU. Yeah, that era was three or six.

@phlipelder said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB: @dustinb3403 said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB: Does the Perc H710P 1GB raid controller have a battery backup option I'm just not seeing? I think all of Dell's PERC series RAID controllers are NVRAM for Cache? Meaning, no need for a cache battery module. Nowadays, pretty much.

@storageninja said in Looking for firmware: @nerdydad said in Looking for firmware: Looks like I am on the latest version of ESXi that will work with this datastore. You using VMFS3 or some nonsense? VMFS6

@gjacobse said in DellAssistant: Critical Seagate Update: Core is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY www.tinycorelinux.net Someone else had that issue https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8sqrxx/core_is_distributed_with_absolutely_no_warranty/

We have both the Dell USB-C docks and a couple of the Thunderbolt models. So far we have had no problem with the USB-C. I even use one for my machine. The Thunderbolts were a bit problematic around the first part of 2017, but after several firmware updates they seem to have stabilized.

@obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @obsolesce said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: @dbeato said in Does Dell not offer low cost HW RAID anymore?: Plus MD1000 are for older SANs... eh? It's just extending the internal storage... externally, hence "DAS". It has tons of use cases. It does, but they MD1000s were mainly setup for SAN devices in mind. Yeah they can also be attached to servers as well which is not bad either. Just not my preference, nothing wrong with that. Not sure what you mean, a DAS is a DAS... MD1000, MD3000, MD1200, MD1400... whatever. They are simply (as what Dell calls them, @scottalanmiller , not me) "Server JBOD Expansions". They aren't specific to SAN use and are not SANs. Okay, I am not trying to go in a tangent and go in argument with you. Why does it need to be this way? Reason for me saying that mainly Dell uses it for SANs see below: https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/povw/powervault-md1000 You still can use them for servers for user. No arguing or disagreeing... I'm just not understanding where you're getting "SAN" from?

it should be noted that it's current build is Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.112] it is possible that rolling back (if possible) to 16299.492 would resolve - which at a point - becomes a 'fresh install' as roll back expires. And since this is a remote system, not convenient to do.

@lj said in Microsoft Hyper-V server 2016 and RD1000 backup: Reading the Veeam Backup Free Edition it appears it installs the console on windows Server or Windows Desktop. Does that sound right? I installed Altaro on the Hyper-V host itself. I don't know which setup would be better though. Comments appreciated. Yes, it goes on Windows.

Yeah after my limited experience with this, not sure I would ever trust using a non-DELL drive. At least on a production system.

@scottalanmiller posted here too https://mangolassi.it/topic/16567/dell-machines-unable-to-vpn-due-to-smartbyte-bloatware

@dbeato said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: @scottalanmiller said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware: SmartByte, a bit of bloatware or possibly malware - certainly closer to malware than not, is shipping by default on some Dell laptops and desktops. If you are doing a clean OS install as is best practice, this bloatware will be unknown to you. But if you keep the random stuff that ships with your machine, you may run into networking problems. SmartByte has been found by Cisco (and us, now that we know about it with clients) to break network connections and specifically has been found to cause VPNs to fail to connect. You'll need to disable, or better remove, or best do a proper, clean OS install, to get your machine able to network reliably. None of my Dell Devices has ever come with this. Not even laptops bought through Amazon. In the past Dell and HP have had the Cisco AnnyConnect client but that is found more on home and retailers like Best Buy, Staples or such. Then again I don’t buy Dell Inspiron (Which are the ones with SmartByte for sure) I never run into it because I would never run a machine without doing a proper OS install, you never know what is on there. But we ran into this (and I've been ranting about how people got into the process of not doing a clean install - dealing with that separately) just now because someone had a machine that didn't get installed and, of course, terrible bloatware problems.