WOW!
1TB for $10/m just wow.. nice!

@Bill-Kindle said:

@lamen said:

@Hubtech said:

Bill, how do you get these sweet deals? where do your write your reviews? i dont know who you are

OP, pls respond!!

I honestly don't know. I was contacted, I've agreed to write a review in exchange for one.

Wow.. have you written and published several other reviews?

What about DAC? isn't that still a factor with any parity RAID?

@scottalanmiller said:

And then when you move to SSD, RAID 5 can make sense again. Lol

Not worth still skipping it and sticking with RAID 6? I take it URE's are enough of a non issue?

We've had it since Windows 95. it will run on anything up to and including Windows 7 x86, but absolutely won't run on x64 anything. I don't have any Windows 8(.1) x86 machines to try it on.

I was thinking Samual L Jackson style - Moth'a F'n Magic

Is HP giving these to you personally? do you get to keep it after the review?
Assuming you can live with the noise why wouldn't you go for the bigger one?
The main advantage to the SFF drives is you can add more drives later assuming you don't fill it now.

Seems like it's going to be like RAID 5, something that's hard to shake loose from people's thoughts.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@Dashrender Better I/O performance over consumer grade?

Yeah If I just stop and think about it - the answer is when the situation calls for what it provides.

I guess I'm still a little stuck in two years ago, when SSDs were still flaky at the consumer level. I purchased three SSD drives back then and one of the three did fail. I've seen Scott say and read elsewhere that SSDs are significantly more reliable today even just a few years later.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller Enterprise SSDs? boy I guess their prices must have fallen through the floor lately?

No, why use enterprise. Consumer SSD in RAID 1 will be way better than what you are used to.

OK I'm lost - when would you use enterprise SSDs then?

OK my day's complete I learned something new!

@scottalanmiller said:

Sixteen bit apps. Wow. Haven't seen one if those in forever. You could always just run DOS.

It's a windows app. At least as far as I can tell it's 16 bit. When I tried to run it on Windows 7 x64 it just said, NO (I haven't tried in years I forget the real error) Trying it right now on my Windows 8 machine gives me the purple bar - This app can't run on your PC, Close.

@scottalanmiller Enterprise SSDs? boy I guess their prices must have fallen through the floor lately?

I'm going to have to use it myself for the next six months to support a 16 bit app. I've been pushing management to transition to something else (there are tons of options) they just can't seem to make it a priority.

I think once they are left to sharing one computer to access this they might finally break and spend the time (more than money) needed to move to a new solution.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you don't have a big database need, likely a PCIe SSD isn't for you. This is really for massive database acceleration primarily.

Agreed, I've never worked in situations that come even close to needing something like this.

@bill-kindle all it's allowing you to do, is allow virus writers to incorporate java-script and other programs that can take over your computer.

I understand that Adobe is trying to be the single interface for anything you might view on your computer, but the risk is really just to great.

If you're a company that needs to view 3D images and see geometry, you most likely already have free viewers for the products that produce the image files in the first place.

Ultimately it's not that I don't want a single product that does it all, that would be great - But Reader has more security holes than Carter has little liver pills. it's as bad or worse than Java.

I'm guessing you're looking to spend as little as possible. But since this is a lab - what about using some cheep consumer SSDs?

Something just doesn't add up there. I can't believe you're having problems with YouTube and Netflix on the Mac side. Something must be wrong with the install.. corrupt files etc...either that or Macs just aren't as good as they claim.

I suppose the sites you're accustomed to working in are used to spending large dollars for fast arrays.

In the end it's all relative.

Back in the ESXi 4.x days I used an old desktop. I think ESXi now requires VT-d or VT-x which a lot of system even today don't have. Scott would know more about this though.