@scottalanmiller this is the ONLY way I make any money Scott, WTH calling me out on my BS?!

Modern laptop batteries are anything but dumb devices. Most of them got an SMBus interface, a bus derived from (and very similar to) I²C. My guess is that either the firmware on this specific battery is bad, your host driver doesn't like the battery or you just had some dirty contacts and the host just couldn't talk to the battery.

Here is what showed up in the unit... https://assets.curvature.com/sites/default/files/pdf/GLC-SX-MMD-CURV.pdf

@Shuey said in Invalid Drive Movement from HP SmartArray P411 RAID Controller with StorageWorks MSA60: Thanks again to everyone who replied and gave feedback on this. It's great to know that there's a solid community of knowledgeable people who are willing to share their expertise - I really appreciate it!! Sadly we didn't find your solution. But happily you found it on your own!

@scottalanmiller said in Did HP Break the Law Vandalizing Your Printer?: @IRJ that sums things up. We've not advanced past Okidata. Gah, stop with the painful (yet colorful) memories!

OK heard from my vendor. They agree that the HPE website saying that iLo Essentials only supports DL380 e-series is kinda hidden and are going to see about refunding me that license. As for the Insight Manager iLo license, they claim that it is what I need at the best price. That this license alone will allow me to run Insight Manager, and use iLo Advanced features all inclusive in this license, which seems odd as it's a less expensive license than just iLo Advanced by itself. I'm currently downloading Insight Manger - I guess we'll see what I see. Though I only have one server currently that I need/want to manage - running Insight Manger is overkill for one server. And, where am I suppose to run Insight Manager? more digging.

Oh this is hilarious. https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/store.hp.com/ukstore?correlationId=c1b17728-019d-44b0-9de3-60ee347f3b6f Seems I have the only review of HP online store on trust pilot.

@DustinB3403 more like any other company announcing a new product

SuperMicro is beginning to make the lines between Tier 1 and Tier 2 blurry as they increase their level of engineering on their products and begin to offer more and more enterprise class support for their products.

Here's a how to on windows 8 (I'm assuming it would be similar on Windows 10)

@scottalanmiller said: Site was offline for a bit, did you get a chance to install Ubuntu? No, I've been remote working today pulling that infected machine out of service, and solving others issues since i was there.

@Dashrender I did not get to use any so have no direct feedback.

@Dashrender said: As part of patient satisfaction I think we should have one. If we put it on it's own internet pipe the cost would be less than $100 a month, but we are moving soon to a new 100/20 pipe from a 10/10 pipe... so we'll have plenty of bandwidth, and with the limitations that creative mentions kinda makes it a non issue. we have 100/100mb pipes. But if you give a mouse a cookie... that bandwidth can be used up in no time if you let it be.

So HP engineering said that this should work but they had not tested it. Make sure you are fully up to date on the firmware and the P410 should be able to go to the P400 safely. But.... caveat emptor, of course.

It was the motherboard. Tested the PSUs this morning with replacements and no issues with the originals. Swapped out the motherboard and the baby fired right up. We are currently recovering everything and anticipate zero data loss. No need to even fall back to the backups.

@thecreativeone91 said: Scale is a big factor. It's the only reason google's crappy desktop motherboard, single psu. Single HDD model works. They have have a lot of nodes. The nodes, don't matter. The redundancy isn't in the nodes, it's in the network of the nodes. Same logic for Facebook's datacenter or BackBlaze's storage pods. Disposable nodes in large quantity.

This should help. http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Creating_and_Managing_Windows_Server_2008_Mirrored_(RAID_1)_Volumes

That's kinda how I feel. It actually feels overpriced. I can get a better Chromebook for less money.

@thecreativeone91 said: @ajstringham said: @thecreativeone91 said: @IRJ said: @scottalanmiller said: @IRJ said: Wow..... usually a company does this when they are in trouble, not thriving Splitting itself is not a bad thing. This is actually what you do to better align a business, in theory. But this is splitting a single market in two and is very foolish in my book. I remember when Gateway sold half their business to MPC. It tanked about a year later. I remember that very well because at the time I was a Gateway tech. We got totally screwed by MPC. We did about 4 months of work unpaid and then they filed bankruptcy. Gateway is still kinda around They got in bed with Acer.. Now Acer's quality is somewhat okay.. It's all low-end customer stuff though. Somewhat okay may be a bit of a generous statement. Before netbooks disappeared, that was their last domain where they made anything worthwhile. The only thing Acer makes that is any good now is monitors. Acer is the number one selling monitor in the country. But yup, all consumer computing gear. No, the Acer Ultrabooks are great quality. The Netbooks not so much. Their netbooks were good, some of the best on the market at the time. Their tablets weren't bad but I wasn't ever real impressed with their Ultrabooks. They're alright but nothing great.