What Are You Doing Right Now
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Laura's Grandma is on her last leg. It doesn't seem like she has much time left. We visited with her tonight after receiving the news.
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laura's Grandma is on her last leg. It doesn't seem like she has much time left. We visited with her tonight after receiving the news.
Very sorry to hear that. Send Laura our best.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Laura's Grandma is on her last leg. It doesn't seem like she has much time left. We visited with her tonight after receiving the news.
Very sorry to hear that. Send Laura our best.
Thanks
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Always sad, even if someone is elderly. At least the family has some time to prepare.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What do you need it to do?
Backup'd some VM's off a host before I started moving hosts around and want to do a test restore but one is near 1tb is size so was going to make a "test ESXi host" from a PC and store to but need a raid card to raid 2-3 1tb drives to have a big enough datastore to recover all the VM in one go.
I've got a few cards but none have a bios to present the raid to ESXi only cards that need installing on windows/linux
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On way to hospital with the wife for her injections in her back hopefully help with her pain.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What do you need it to do?
Backup'd some VM's off a host before I started moving hosts around and want to do a test restore but one is near 1tb is size so was going to make a "test ESXi host" from a PC and store to but need a raid card to raid 2-3 1tb drives to have a big enough datastore to recover all the VM in one go.
I've got a few cards but none have a bios to present the raid to ESXi only cards that need installing on windows/linux
So you need a RAID card
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Can't decide if I want to keep working or need to stop and playing a video game or just give up and go to bed.
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Planning on doing a system update here in just a few.
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Going down for the update.
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ANd we are back!
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We are running on NodeBB 1.5.2 now.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We are running on NodeBB 1.5.2 now.
Damnit, I just updated to 1.5.1 on two systems yesterday.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We are running on NodeBB 1.5.2 now.
Damnit, I just updated to 1.5.1 on two systems yesterday.
Falling behind already.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We are running on NodeBB 1.5.2 now.
Damnit, I just updated to 1.5.1 on two systems yesterday.
Falling behind already.
Well they were way behind, because I was lazy after having errors when I first tried 1.5.0.
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Common pattern, but I'm never clear how to explain what this is. It's "asking a crazy question" and being upset that no one has an answer. But it's because the question is so crazy and unpredictable.
Imagine if I asked "does this fridge support bananas? I looked it up on their website and it doesn't list bananas as getting cold in here anywhere, how am I supposed to know if this fridge is compatible with bananas." How dumb would that be? But so many IT questions are like that - demanding answers to nonsensical questions or wanting information in a form or from a person that isn't applicable.
I see this on SW all the time, but I need a term or something for it. I'm very clear how to describe or tackle this problem. But like in this case, this person is all frustrated yet it never occurs to them that no vendor has ever provided this kind of info. They are looking for info that no one else has ever needed, yet feel it is important. They never realize that the reason no answer exists might be because the question makes no sense.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2015721-netgear-readynas-pro-2-maximum-disk-size-in-xraid2
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They realized immediately that the question was nutty once I pointed it out, though. Which is good. Everyone has those moments. But what are those moments called?
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Overthinking it is not quite what it is. But may be related.
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I'd go for inside the box thinking.
Sadly I have to admit that I fall for it more often that I would like to admit.
In this case it appears rational to ask - Hey this says it's a limit of 4 TB - how is this limit arrived at?
Of course logically, we understand that from a general understanding RAID 1 has no limit other than the amount of storage provided in the smaller drive of a two drive setup (This assumes that someone's inappropriately using two different sized drives).
But then we see this listed limitation - 4 TB - suddenly we are - WTF? why is there a 4 TB limit? What does this mean? So the question gets asked.
While I understand the vendors need to put a number on the box, the number itself is what allows this rabbit hole to be open in the first place.
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EArly to customer site. Trying to kill time.
