Neither, but some areas of note just from looking at that site briefly:

"To begin with you need atleast three servers, but the more the better.
To be able to use as much raw disk as possible it's better to build many nodes rather then less nodes with lot's of storage disk in them."

"All data is stored in multiple copies and possibly geographically separated locations within the cluster."

"Start as small as four nodes"

There are some strangely semi-conflicting statements within the site itself, and seeing the word "possibly" when describing where your data stripes are distributed within the cluster doesn't really fill me with too much confidence. You could always try it in the lab, but I haven't seen or heard of anyone using it in production at this moment in time. Also I'm not sure what your node count is looking like but if you're in the 2-4 range I'd recommend just sticking with what's industry proven.

Thanks @scottalanmiller , @QuixoticJeremy , and @dafyre ! Happy to be here! I work for a group who's slowly but surely moving into the official MSP space as an Enterprise Support Tech. I'm looking to move into the Engineering space in the near future as I'm currently working towards my MCSE. Looking forward to speaking with and hopefully meeting some of you soon!

I've found that a lot. SMBs tend to actually be way less flexible compared to enterprises. Enterprises tend to be much more focused on their employee's, their quality of life, and running the business well. SMBs tend to be focused on the emotional needs of the owners to the exclusion of all else, including value of life and profits.

Well said, almost like you've been doing this a while.

@scottalanmiller And we're still no closer to having a production ready MS SDS product....

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I was looking at grabbing a Synology DS216j, anyone have any experience with them or have a different NAS you'd recommend? Primary use will just be for home device and lab backups.

@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:

@dashrender said in I can't even:

@rojoloco said in I can't even:

@eddiejennings said in I can't even:

17 years in IT? https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2083921-help-errror-e1810-hdd-1-hdd2-hdd3-fault-on-poweredge-2900-production-server?page=1#entry-7357313

She even says in the post - "I have no idea what I'm doing". Not something to post publicly if you claim to have 17 years in IT.

This goes to another recent thread about the home lab vs 'work experience' just because you "worked" in IT for 17 years doesn't mean you know shit about it.

Great catch. One day in a home lab might easly have provided more useful knowledge and experience than seventeen years working in a company doing this stuff.

Also goes to show that just having a cert doesn't mean anything, it's what you learned along the way. CISSP, and an MCSE? Come on....

Should be noted that any server running 1709 cannot be added to S2D pools as it stands currently since it's not considered production ready....

not if you read SW, you'd think no SMB knows to patch and those that do can never get downtime for them.

That's because they don't want to work nights or weekends.

If only there was a way to schedule updates to run outside of business hours.....

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1786/

@computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

@r3dpand4 I sent my prediction to a peer who has also been in crypto for several years, he agrees with me. Now it's been peer reviewed.

Looks like you nailed it......

@momurda "India? They cant even provide reliable water and electricity for the majority of their population. I am sure accepting bitcoin is high on their list of todos. Oh wait, no it isnt, it is officially banned."

India has not banned Cryptocurrency: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sindhujabalaji/2018/02/06/india-is-not-banning-cryptocurrency-heres-what-it-is-doing-instead/#673cea5f7c6f

Everything you have posted is categorically false, you honestly don't deserve any further responses. Stating outlandish things and making character claims about a large portion of the world's population without citation doesn't deserve attention.

@computerchip "No one really knows if it will rain tomorrow or not, but they speculate across the world every day.

You can look at a previous post here, where I speculated that BTC will be consistently above the 10k mark in 30 days. Looks like I am on track for that prediction."

This is an inaccurate representation of yourself and every layman speculating on Cryptocurrency prices. Weather predictions are made by professionals based on scientific modeling stemming from peer reviewed research. Making random guesses spread over forums is in no way comparable.

No one really knows so I don't understand the point in speculating. It's literally plastered over every forum regarding Cryptocurrency that you should only invest what you're willing to lose 100% of and that holding long term, 5+ years, outweighs day trading gains for the average person. Sure it could go up today, it could also go down. Speculating day to day is pointless, and if you're in the Cryptocurrency space to make money just do your research, buy in, and wait 5 years. Watching Delta or coinlib every day is just going to stress you out.

FortiGate and WatchGuard are the two I have the most experience with and both are pretty solid.

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-047-released

Just out of curiosity....why are you going with a separate VPN product? The SSL Client VPN from WatchGuard is free and works fine.

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux

Good news...

I had never seen this thread before, but since it jumped to the top of my unread I took a peak. The group I'm with currently has pretty close ties to one of the largest Practice Management Software developers in the country, and it's architecture is exactly the same. This is also why Ransomware is such an issue, considering everyone on the LAN normally has Read/Write access to the DB files. Terrible development is sadly far too common.

@scottalanmiller Agreed, especially since you're to a greater degree surrounded by people who have absolutely no idea what it is that you do. Even management structures in SMB IT are rarely staffed by technical individuals or technically competent I should probably say. At least in my experience, the fewer people around me who think what I do is comparable to black magic the better.