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In a typical over provisioned system (you can think of any folder-based filesystem as being this way too) you have many VMs, not just one or two. Once you have, say, a dozen it is trivial to over provision safely. You do this by a few means:

Reporting and alerting so that systems growing rapidly are addressed. Maintaining caps that are large enough for flexibility but small enough so that if X VMs spiral out of control it will not be an issue. The X factor here is to be determined based on your risk and risk aversion. If you have, say, a dozen VMs, you might have the cap set so that ten VMs could expand to maximum but not all twelve. If any two VMs don't have an issue, you would be all set. Or maybe you'd set it for six. You don't overprovision to where any VM could use the entire space, it just doesn't make sense.

@nic Yeah I wouldn't mind trying it as well.

My only experience has been the other issue we discussed, so I'd like to give it a spin.

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm not sure if it detects and changes based on that or not.

Is it possible those settings were set by the H310 and just migrated to the H710?

If you swapped the disks from one to the other, absolutely. Did you have to recreate the RAID arrays?

@scottalanmiller said:

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@wrx7m said:

I didn't know you could go in whatever pattern. I always filled from 0-x

I always thought you had to do that as well.

And even though it always worked with gaps, wondered if it would cause issues.

The only problems random drive placement may cause is when replacing failed drives, by the person pulling the wrong drive..... which shouldn't be an issue, you have documentation on where each drive is, right? RIGHT?

Most alerts I get tell me which bay the drive is in. Not sure if that is the same on Dell servers?

On the server with a real RAID adapter it'll tell me, but my software based RAIDs generally aren't so nice because they don't know.

I guess if you put them in one at a time and set them up, you'd know then.

Bet you'd never guess that I've about bit myself doing this a number of times.

@JaredBusch said:

That is why you enable rating restrictions. if you do not want people to have access. use the tools provided.

Does it show the actual item, and restrict it? Or not show it at all? I am going to set it up and play with it myself soon enough ... was just curious.

Also, there is stuff that isn't rating related that I just might not need everyone to see. It would be nice if you could go the opposite. Everything is hidden, and you enable what you want. But perhaps I'm an outlier. (PROBABLE.)

We use gotomeeting here. Saw https://www.fuze.com/plans and never knew that 3CX has one http://www.3cx.com/web-conferencing/

@scottalanmiller said:

Is GZoogle the compressed version of Google?

GYes.

@scottalanmiller said:

Binge watching.

Not really.

Usually have events to go to, etc..

@Dashrender said:

huh, it sounds like you take that WAY farther that I've seen anyone, including hospitals take it.

We've already established that I am a "What-If" planner with OCD. Would you expect any less?

In all seriousness, though, we have a lot of clients in healthcare and pharma, and they require that level of protection.

BTW: I reached out to Cameron at Kingston about this, just to get a manufacturer's opinion. (I also invited him to join the forum as Kingston has been very helpful with demos and stuff.) Same as what the experts here have said. 🙂

He said:
TRIM is not as critical today as it was several years ago. The SSD controllers now do a good job at garbage collection which is effectively trying to accomplish the same thing by trying to keep the invalid data areas empty for new writes to come in efficiently. We've studied the performance affects of TRIM in our labs here at Kingston and have found that most reputable SSD manufacturers today are making SSD's that perform well whether TRIM is enabled or not on the operating system.

TRIM support is definitely necessary from a marketing standpoint but less necessary from a technical stand point at this point in time.

@stacksofplates said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@scottalanmiller said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@stacksofplates said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@Dashrender said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@scottalanmiller said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

@jmoore said in Local Encryption ... Why Not?:

I've advocated we store nothing on our laptops but so far its had little effect. We are very backward here unfortunately. I think storing mostly online is very good and makes services like Nextcloud very valuable in this scenario.

It was turned on by the vendor when delivered. Nothing was stored on the device and they had no idea that there was encryption on it.

A new laptop showed up that way once - I was like - wth?

I think the bigger question was, it didn't get reimaged to whatever standard they're using?

Ha, this is medical. Zero standards. Ever seen any medical that has a standard build? Nope. Or even standard hardware? Nope. Or even consult someone in IT within six months of having put a machine into service? Nope.

Idk when I was doing my business I had a few Drs offices and I reimaged them when they got one.

That's because you got to be in charge, I would assume. Here we are only "as needed" and the head of operations runs IT and only has us fix what she breaks (which is quite a lot.)

Same Scotch that @dominica and I drink.

@marcinozga said:

I've replaced optical drive with SSD in 27 inch 2009 iMac. It required a conversion tray, iFixit has it for sale. They also have guides how to do it, step by step with pictures. And since yours doesn't have display fused with glass (2012 models and newer), it's fairly easy.
I never bothered to enable TRIM, and I saw no side effects.

The optical drive bay is 3GB/s ... did you keep your original hard drive?

I'm debating doing a full swap to get the full 6GB/s.

Yeah I think the "Office Uploader" got installed when I installed ODfB.

Which, as everybody here seems to know, seems to have some issues, generally.

@jt1001001 said in Home Surveillance System (Outdoors):

I just started to check out some solutions myself. I want to explore the UniFi video equipment from Ubiquiti for our offices. We have overhangs so figured 2 or 3 cameras at each location with spare desktop running linux for the vr portion.
https://dl.ubnt.com/datasheets/unifi/UniFI_Video_DS.pdf

I'm really trying to stay away from hard-wired if possible.

My house is 50 years old and wiring all that up will be a chore and a half...

BTW: when trying to figure out why OneDrive was not showing icons in Windows 10, i came across this article. Perhaps it will fix the icon problem people have been having...

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3079213

that's too bad. Yeah, I guess mods need to move the topics.

@BRRABill Oh, ha ha. I missed that.

@dafyre said:

What about using something like Base? You get the benefits of Access (easy to use, lower learning curve if you are coming from Access), but you also get cross-platform compatibility, no paying for version upgrades, or being locked into Windows.

Definitely better, but I've not used it first hand to say. Worth a try, though. Base + MariaDB or even Base + SQLite.

@scottalanmiller said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Ambarishrh said:

We should have a section for this! Alcohol, types, great mixes, recommendations! 🙂

A whole section for Scotch? Seems excessive but I like the way you think.

No, excessive would be having a section for Islay and a section for mainland.

THat's what tags are for..
Need to have a forum mod tag threads when the OP does not.