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    • Looking for a NC host for an Open Source project
      IT Discussion • storage nextcloud xen orchestra hosting webserver • • DustinB3403  

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      @dafyre Thanks, testing now to see if it works (as expected).
    • StarWind Success Story: PBS Systems consolidates storage systems with StarWind
      Starwind • storage starwind redundancy jobs • • Oksana  

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    • How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676
      IT Discussion • storage dell hard drive sata dell inspiron molex sata 3.3 sata power disable feature • • scottalanmiller  

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      @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.
    • Linux Copy a Disk Over SSH with DD
      IT Discussion • linux storage ssh dd • • scottalanmiller  

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      @krisleslie said in Linux Copy a Disk Over SSH with DD: @scottalanmiller can this be used while on XCP-NG host? Can be used on every non-Windows system.
    • Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image
      IT Discussion • windows storage windows server ntfs vss snapshot • • scottalanmiller  

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      @dbeato said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image: @scottalanmiller said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image: @black3dynamite said in Access Changed Files on VSS Copy on Write Disk Image: Mount the disk image on Windows Server instance, from the mounted disk drive, go to Properties and then Previous Versions? That's what I thought. But it just seemed too easy, lol. Lol, anything that appears with Microsoft as easy should work but emphasis on "should" Emphasis with "assume" too. lol
    • Import a QCOW2 Into Proxmox
      IT Discussion • storage kvm proxmox qcow2 qcow • • scottalanmiller  

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      @scottalanmiller said in Import a QCOW2 Into Proxmox: This works for many formats other than qcow2 as well. A straight block image in ISO / img format will work just fine, too. Yes it does. [email protected]:~# qm importdisk 100 tophat/Manual_DD_Unzipped/live_sda.img local-zfs importing disk 'tophat/Manual_DD_Unzipped/live_sda.img' to VM 100 ... transferred: 0 bytes remaining: 73274490880 bytes total: 73274490880 bytes progression: 0.00 % >snippy snip< transferred: 72666312605 bytes remaining: 608178275 bytes total: 73274490880 bytes progression: 99.17 % transferred: 73274490880 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 73274490880 bytes progression: 100.00 % transferred: 73274490880 bytes remaining: 0 bytes total: 73274490880 bytes progression: 100.00 % Successfully imported disk as 'unused0:local-zfs:vm-100-disk-0' [email protected]:~#
    • Choosing Open-Source Storage Software Properly
      Starwind • storage software sds opensource • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Free Webinar: Open-Source Storage Software
      News • storage starwind open source backup sds • • Oksana  

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    • Choosing the Right Storage Medium for Your Infrastructure
      Starwind • storage starwind • • Oksana  

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    • LumaForge Jellyfish Storage
      IT Discussion • storage lumaforge jellyfish • • scottalanmiller  

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      @scottalanmiller I haven't used them, but from what I hear it's only network storage. I could easily build something that would be faster for less money.
    • StarWind Free Webinar: Choosing a Proper Storage Medium for your infrastructure
      Starwind • storage data center • • Oksana  

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      CSV... what happens at a lower level?
      IT Discussion • windows storage microsoft filesystem csv cluster shared volume • • Jimmy9008  

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      @Jimmy9008 said in CSV... what happens at a lower level?: That makes sense, would a drop from 1GB/s to 100MB/s be expected? Seems huge... Depending on the system, yeah, especially with certain kinds of operations.
    • How do you get your departments to quantify what they actually need for their jobs
      IT Discussion • storage backup servers backup and disaster recovery planning scheduling departments • • DustinB3403  

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      @pmoncho said in How do you get your departments to quantify what they actually need for their jobs: Your more than welcome to dive into https://issurvivor.com/ and search his archives His only mention of MSP is from Nov, 2000 when he discovered the term. And he talks about ASPs as well. I had started my first of both, over a hear before he heard the terms https://issurvivor.com/2000/11/20/trend-overload-first-appeared-in-infoworld/ It really was a new term at the time. But he acts like the concept was new. It was very tried and true in the 1990s. It's an ancient article, just funny that in late 2000 he was thinking that MSPs were some hot, new thing, lol.
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      Syncoid To usb retention policy ZFS?
      IT Discussion • linux storage zfs sanoid syncoid • • killmasta93  

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      Thanks for the reply, the issue is that sanoid.conf does not send the snapshot to the usb but syncoid does, or does having that template automatic prune the snapshots?
    • IOPS for SSD?
      IT Discussion • storage ssd servers iops sas sas ssd • • wrx7m  

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      @wrx7m said in IOPS for SSD?: @travisdh1 said in IOPS for SSD?: @wrx7m said in IOPS for SSD?: @Pete-S They dropped the price to 1061.24 since I posted. lol Interesting. Yes, but that is a max of 12 nvme. I may have misunderstood that option with 8 SAS/SATA. I am guessing that the max of 12 would allow for more SAS/SATA, although it doesn't mention it. My issue was also with the available drive capacities and cost per TB for spinning disks in the 2.5" spec. Yeah, especially direct from the OEM. Have you thought about buying the storage from xByte instead? Are their drives brand new? I did price out a server with specs as similar to Dell's as possible and it was only off by a couple grand. IMHO, I consider their drives are 99.9% brand new as its possible an OEM install was done on the drive or something like that. Plus testing of the drive by the OEM and xByte. Their hardware is manufacturer refurbished, not used. Big difference. If you can get a Dell ProSupport (w/w-out) Plus 7 year warranty on the server with the drives from xByte, it doesn't really matter if they are new or not. They are under warranty for 7 years and you have no worries.
    • UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL
      IT Discussion • linux storage centos database mysql rdbms centos 6 relational database innodb ure • • scottalanmiller  

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      @Obsolesce said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @scottalanmiller said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: @Pete-S said in UREs Strike InnoDB on MySQL: Step one is to remove the drives and clone them with dd or recovery tool to a new drive. You could probably recover 99.9% of the data - if you want. As you can guess from all of their previous issues, they don't want to pay for any recovery, they just want it magically fixed for free. They don't own any storage onto which to clone it, either. Then what is the point of any of it? It appears to have zero value to the business. I said that to them.
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      Veeam with NetApp?
      IT Discussion • storage backup veeam netapp raid 4 raid-dp • • Pete.S  

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      @StorageNinja said in Veeam with NetApp?: Netapp E-Series is the same as the old Dell MD36xxx or the LSI enginio code base (IBM also sold a similar low-end modular array). These things were wicked fast/cost-effective at streaming workloads (got used for Lustre clusters a lot as the DAS on the nodes). Dell's abandoned reselling them for Seagate (Dothill) but they still around Not wicked fast compared to building your own. And the staggering lack of internal support if anything goes wrong is a big deal... storage is one of those things you want to have work, especially at these price ranges. Having been a NetApp customer, I know that their support is helpless when it comes to trying to do high performance, their crap just falls over and so do their engineers.
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      Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment
      IT Discussion • storage raid freebsd zfs freenas software raid hardware raid • • saniplastic  

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      @matteo-nunziati said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: @saniplastic said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: @DustinB3403 said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment: metadata metadata? please explain more. The config files where the vm is defined. Do not backup the vm disk only. I suppose he referes to this. I backup with veeam. whole vm files.
    • Network Storage - CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Prof. Messer
      Training • storage youtube networking comptia prof messer certification it career video training it training network+ nas san • • steve  

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    • Hyperconvergence by 2020? Virtualized storage is the first step
      Starwind • storage hyperconverged starwind vsan • • Oksana  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Daikin optimizes its IT infrastructure by 70%
      Starwind • storage starwind backup hyper-v high availability • • Oksana  

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    • Examples of proper utilization of SAN
      IT Discussion • storage san storage planning business case • • EddieJennings  

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      I don't know how Starwind vSAN can be run but if it's on a hypervisor it's severely limited by I/O congestion through the kernel. NVMe drives is causing problems that was of no concern whatsoever with spinners. Both KVM and Xen has made a lot of work to limit their I/O latency and use polling techniques now but it's still a problem. That's why you really need SR-IOV on NVMe drives so any VM can bypass the hypervisor and just have it's own kernel to slow things down. Anton: There are no problems with polling these days You normally spawn a SPDK-enabled VM (Linux is unbeatable here as most of the new gen I/O development happens there) and pass thru RDMA-capable network hardware (virtual function with SR-IOV or whole card with PCIe pass-thru, this is really irrelevant...) and NMVe drives and... magic starts happening This is how our NVMe-oF target works on ESXi & Hyper-V (KVM & Xen have no benefits here architecturally, this is where you're either wrong or I failed to get your arguments). It's possible to port SPDK into Windows user-mode but lack of NVMe and NIC polling drivers takes away all the fun: to move the same amount of data we normally use ~4x more CPU horsepower on "Pure Windows" Vs. "Linux-SPDK-VM-on-Windows" models. Microsoft is trying to bring SPDK to Windows kernel (so does VMware from what I know), but it needs a lot of work from NIC and NVMe engineers and... nobody wants to contribute. Really. Just my $0.02
    • Linux users with iPhones / iPads
      Water Closet • storage music media streaming media server • • EddieJennings  

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      @marcinozga said in Linux users with iPhones / iPads: @NashBrydges That's most likely direct connection. Plex uses UPnP and NAT-PMP to open ports on router, otherwise you simply cannot connect directly. If you stream through relay, that's where limitation is in place. I have UPNP + NAT-PMP enabled. I'll disable them and test things out when I have a chance.
    • StarWind Success Story: Formica Group saves nearly $450,000 with StarWind!
      Starwind • storage starwind hyperconverged vmware esxi • • Oksana  

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    • UNIX: ZFS
      IT Discussion • linux storage unix raid sam linux administration freebsd bsd lvm zfs software raid solaris logical volume managers file system • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Windows Disk Management - CompTIA A+ 220-1002 Prof Messer
      IT Careers • windows storage comptia prof messer certification it career video training it training a+ • • steve  

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    • StarWind Success Story: Greenwich solves its clustering problem
      Starwind • storage starwind hyper-v hci virtual machine hyperconverged infrastructure • • Oksana  

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    • RAID - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      IT Careers • storage youtube comptia prof messer raid certification it career video training it training a+ • • steve  

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      Interesting but also I get confused with all the comments XD
    • Storage Devices - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer
      IT Careers • storage youtube comptia prof messer certification it career video training a+ sata sas scsi ata • • steve  

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      @brianwinkelmann said in Storage Devices - CompTIA A+ 220-1001 Prof Messer: I am seriously thinking about buy a SSD drive to install on my old computer that is Pentium 4 - 3.0 GHz, 3 GB RAM, with Windows XP and install there the Windows 10 so it can run faster, Do you think that is a crazy idea? Yes, it's crazy. Even if you can get a $30 SSD like we can from Amazon here in the US (small WD Green drive), it's not worth putting $30 into a computer worth at best $5. Pentium 4 wasn't just a 32bit processor, it was a really, really slow 32bit processor. It was so bad that they had to bring the Pentium 3 back with a new name to keep their products alive while they figured out what to do. It's considered the worst processor ever made (that got actually sold.) And with only 3GB of RAM, it doesn't have anything there going for it, either. It's only $55 if you shop around to get a quad core, 64bit, 8GB RAM Raspberry Pi. If you are going to talk about adding an SSD to something, start with at least that.
    • An Overview of RAID - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer
      IT Careers • storage youtube comptia prof messer raid it training a+ • • scottalanmiller  

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      @connorsoliver said in An Overview of RAID - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer: Is using a RAID 1 configuration faster as well? Or is its main purpose so if you lose one of the drives you have a backup? Primary purpose is definitely data protection. But RAID 1 provides a 200% read performance benefit over using a single drive. Write performance is the same as a single drive.