I guess what I mean is ... Office 365 Business Essentials looks similar to what I have, except it also has online versions of Office, and 1TB of ODfB. For $1 a month more.

What is the difference between the Small Business Suite and the Enterprise? For some reason i thought you could not mix and match.

I also seem to remember going with the Exchange Online because the "Small Business" couldn't support the hybrid type of setup I currently have.

So I started out with 1 license for :
Exchange Online Plan 1

What does that mean, exactly?

I contacted xByte to see if they would have any interest in swapping out my H310 for a H710.

If not, it's a sub $200 loss.

Trying to fight off a BBQ food and beer coma to continue drinking more beer.

I have Exchange Online (the $4/month) on a few domains.

Can you add Office 365 (Office apps and ODfB) to select users?

What is the best way to have, say, 10 e-mail accounts, but only give the full Office package to a few select users?

Also, I am thinking of migrating my on-premise 3rd party Exchange-like server (MDaemon) to Exchange Online. Should I start another thread for that discussion? Or since I might also be looking for Office365 should I include it here?

I think I actually just saw a cricket run across my screen.

@scottalanmiller said:

I see that too. You can't always trust it.

I trust everything on this site. Even the unread page.

So it sounds like my options are...

(I only have the H310 in hand)

1. keep the H310, and get 10K SAS DELL drives
2. buy a H710, throw the H310 away (or maybe eBay), and go with the EDGE SSDs

WWSD?

@scottalanmiller said:

Except there is no appreciable wear and tear from writes with spinning rust.

Is it proven (questioning the theory, not you) that is really a concern with SSDs? Especially server grade SSDs?

Wouldn't it have the same issue with "spinning rust" as you guys call it?

@scottalanmiller said:

Defeats the point of SSDs quite a bit, though, and increases wear and tear on them dramatically.

Why is that?

Well, since I'm not running any crazy apps and the thing and will have SSDs, maybe it'll be OK for me.

@scottalanmiller said:

Or do you mean the H310 being worthy?

I mean the H310 being worthy.

In that for my usage I can keep it instead of moving to the T710.

@scottalanmiller said:

It is a slow evening around ML.

When the "unread" page sits for a few minutes with no activity, you know it is slow.

OK.

I won't see it again until Monday. Let me know what you want me to do, and I'll do it.

Maybe it'll prove itself worthy and I won't have to upgrade.

It's in my new server that is currently sitting dormant, awaiting the release of Server 2016.

I have one of these. Do you want me to run some tests?

Also, should I get rid of this and get the next model up? Going to do 3 Edge SSDs on it in a RAID 5 config.

Just heard Nicaragua as an answer on Jeopardy. Or part of an answer.

Yeah take that beer talk elsewhere, LOL.