@larsen161 said:
I'm wondering how others are using SMR based drives. Clearly there are situations where their performance is acceptable. Also, use within any RAID setup seems to not be recommended and it's unlikely many are creating custom implementations of Reed-Solomon erasure encoding. How can these best be used in multi-drive setups for example?
They are really just meant for backups where the drive will not be powered on much..
@Dashrender said:
A constant complaint I'm hearing is that the docs don't want to be typing in documentation while talking to the patients, it seems rude and impersonal.
What is your proposal to solving that?
Replace the doctors?
That's a normal part of a doctor visit anywhere around here.
@anthonyh said:
I'm configuring some new blades (HP ProLiant BL465c G8's)
Why did you go with Blades? We don't even use those as a fortune 100. They cost more money and have more points of failure. You also are locked in, and have to upgrade it all together. 1U servers really don't take up anymore space once you count all the wast the blade chasis makes.
Looks like for a non-profit you could get Acrobat pretty cheap: http://www.techsoup.org/products/acrobat-xi-pro-win-esd--G-40959--
@NattNatt said:
Cable ladder down the wall, velcro to that in nice neat runs.
This!
That what we do in our IDFs (well our contractors, we don't do it). All of our IDFs have approx 480 Cat6a runs to them and then the IDFs uplink with 4 Fiber Pairs to the MDF.
You can pry the covers under the lip easily or use tin snips, heavy duty cutting pliers
Also the keys for these are fairly standard if you have one for and of the telecom pedals/boxes
Make sure it's disconnected from your [telephone] network interface box before you remove it. Otherwise you might get a shock they have transformers that run off the telephone line voltage
@JaredBusch said:
@Mike-Davis said:
I'm running all CAT6 for premise wiring. I might still use some CAT5e patch cables, but those are easily enough swapped out. I have heard of some PoE+ cameras burning up when run over CAT 5 cable. I don't want to have to go and rewire a building because I saved a few bucks on the cable.
That is just a silly thing to say. PoE and PoE+ require, per the IEEE standard, category 5, but is still allowed to be ran on category 3 for lower wattage workloads.
A camera burning up would be more likely to have been caused by poor termination or damage to the cable when it was ran. Of course the wire could be bad internally, but in more than 7 years professionally installing alarm systems (some on ethernet) and another 17 doing network cabling intermittently, I have never had a box of bad cable. I am sure it happens, but I have never seen it.
Most manufacturs test the whole spool as one before it ships. I don't think I've ever seen bad cable either only bad termination or b damaged cable from installers putting too much stress on a cable.
@Dashrender said:
@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
O365 user licensed (5 computers and 5 mobile devices) or
And do companies typically allow employees to install on their home devices? Or is that a no-no?
Say if they really only needed 1 at work.
it would be pretty hard for them to prevent users from installing at home. Though when the company tells you to log into a device, you had probably have a license available for your work device, or you have some 'splainin' to do Lucy!.
You can prevent users from downloading/installing
Rack mounted desktops like dell Precisions are great for high end 3d CAD (way way overkill for 2D), Animation, Video Production etc.
Pretty common setup. They make remote graphics cards with client stations designed for these setups.
When our company files taxes they have to pay it either way..
@Dashrender said:
Personally, it feels like the FBI's backing off with a claim of a third party is every bit as likely that they feel they are loosing the case and want to back away from this before precedent is set.
I would not be surprised if there is a programmer.. maybe one who left apple or was terminated and has it out for the company that can do this.
@MattSpeller said:
@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
@MattSpeller said:
@Jason said:
@MattSpeller said:
Prediction: 2017/18 will bring an Intel chip with 64+ lanes and this will not be an issue.
I think so too.
I think Thunderbolt will be the best physical interface rather than the current PCIE form factors too. Mainly it allows the flexiablity like SATA with greater throughput. It would allow you to use cables (internal or external) and could plug into a blackplane once the layout of the drives are standarized. And could even allow dasiy chaining.
eyeroll
Go design a kick ass widget and put a thunderbolt connector on it, then see what it costs to license.
Hopefuly Intel will ditch the licesning costs at some point.. No other interface is doing that. They are just killing it doing that.
No way, Intel doesn't work that way.
Here Comes AMD LightingBolt..
Apparently not
check out the dates in my search
Yeah I didn't even know it was a real thing. I just made it up as a joke.
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@Jason said:
7 users? do you even need exchange or office? if not use OpenOffice/Libre and a good hosted mailserver no point in the extra's of exchange if you don't need it.
Hosted email and Libreoffice all the way.
I actually agree that we have no need for AD, but at least I know my way around it now.
Although Samba4 lowers the threshold for using it as it is free.
And No CALs..
@Ambarishrh said:
@scottalanmiller does video/voice call/screensharing works for you?
A lot of times those require tie ins to a PBX or telepresense system to work.
A HyperConvereged system (compute and storage in one). So you can just add another node a scale out both storage and compute power you just add another node.
However this is not cheap, a single node with a few TB can easily cost as much as house.
This sounds illegal. If do you have a seat to cover the new server.. you don't just get one license you need to buy one for each server. If You you are using volume the key will be on MS VLSC so you wouldn't need to do this.
If it's retail you need a different key for each server, so you don't want to activate in this method. You will need to get the key from a new retail copy you bought, not from the installed one.
@dafyre said:
@Jason said:
@JaredBusch said:
@hobbit666 said:
I don't see a problem. the logic is fine 10K is faster spinning than 7.2K. cut them some slack!
WTF kind of logic makes you think intentionally breaking and rebuilding a RAID5 array 4 times is a good thing?
If it was a RAID 10.. Maybe. RAID 5 No way in hell is this a good idea.
Even RAID10, to me, that'd be a big maybe.
Yeah I wouldn't do it but chances of failure would be pretty slim compared to RAID 5 especially.
Pfsense will meet your needs as well if you aren't looking for an appliance.
Give them tasks little by little and see what that can handle and what that struggle with. That's how I usually do my new employees
