If you combine the drive failure rate calculator for RAID 0 with the URE Risk of the RAID 5 calculator you can actually get some decent idea of total risk.

http://www.raid-failure.com/raid0-failure.aspx

@Carnival-Boy said:

But it's totally unmanageable for anything other than tiny environments. To the degree that I would say the low cost version is no longer available.

Yeah, If only that were true, that's it no longer available. The powers that be know they exist because they see it in the store 'Office Home Business Edition'

@ajstringham said:

@Hubtech said:

http://www.woot.com/offers/wi-five-onyx-computer-glasses-amber?ref=cnt_wp_8_2

Yes but I wear prescription lenses.

So do I (or is it eye?) 😉

Windows IT Pro has some info too: http://windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/create-hyper-v-2012-usb-boot-stick

@jasonh said:

If you have an old PC laying around (or find one on kijiji for < $50), put two network cards in it and install pfSense. If you're concerned about power consumption, find a Pentium 3; they draw very little power. If space is an issue and you don't mind spending a few $ (< $200), get an Alix board/case/power supply.

I gave up on consumer routers a while ago. I found mine would choke every time someone started doing a portscan or other weird hacking/scanning attempts on the cable network. I still use a D-Link wireless router for my Wifi access, but it's running openwrt and it's just a bridge between the WLAN and LAN (WAN port is not in use)

Note, I had the "choking" issue on my D-Link and Linksys routers even while they were running openwrt; I think the small CPU's in them just couldn't handle dropping all the packets and while continuing to serve legitimate traffic

My Cisco E3000 running dd-wrt has yet to go down in almost 4 days. Before, it was every 4 hours with my network. No exaggeration. When you host your own website out of the location too, that's really bad. But I know what you mean. The OEM firmware sucks on almost all consumer stuff. Netgear Genie is the best of the lot that I've seen but still pales in comparison to dd-wrt, which I swear by.

@thecreativeone91 cool, I had no idea.

Thanks! This will be helpful.

how do they compare to the Ubiquiti?

True. Security is very pop.

I've seen a lot of new big label content recently.

I had my PCOIP setting incorrect, after putting in the correct settings everything is working great.

The concept to watch out for is "investing in technical debt".

So which product did you end up using in the end?

Makes sense. Thanks for the info.

They aren't focusing on what makes you more secure, but are focusing on changing the goal that you are working towards.

@JaredBusch said:

@garak0410 said:

I spoke with my direct manager (the VP) and he said get her the OptiPlex 3020...solution solved. I hate it when I get caught in the middle between other managers...

Office politics are a thing i do not miss.

Luckily I rarely get involved in them...heck, I am never involved with them...just in the crossfire once and a while.

@Dashrender said:

@DenisKelley said:

I'd think it would just fail, but just thought to note that. Can you copy the files up closer to the root of his profile folder and call it something like test and have him launch from there. Honestly, not sure that it will make any difference, but figured since you are pretty close, why not eliminate that as a variable.

He already tried that by moving the files to the desktop, changing the path.

So either the path length is the cause or something about the file table is broken.

Yeah, forgot that. I had a problem when copying project files from a network drive where the path was really at the border. So to move them to another server, I had to create a mapping to that location to shorten the file path and then it was able to do so.

i have seen and been through this issue. What we determined was that the print driver that was being installed used a similar either ini or dll file that the new driver updated. That then caused all of the existing printers to need an updated driver on each client. That was a headache for a few days.