Very helpful.
Thank you for sharing.

@Obsolesce said in Making the Most of Your Inverted Pyramid of Doom:

@scottalanmiller said in Making the Most of Your Inverted Pyramid of Doom:

Peer-reviewed my behind… This post represents a complete and total spew of utter garbage. Really??? Emotional reactions to “the problem”?? “An IPOD”?? Even suggesting (though not “our best option” dumping all your brand new equipment and moving to a single host?? Please focus on removing your introspective nears and pathetic sarcasm to a minimum. You couldn’t smell the manure stink more had you forcefully shoved your head inside an elephants rear end…. Do the world of Actual IT Professionals a favor and take your biased disinformation to a place where no-one else can be poorly and deceitfully guided by it.
Sincerely,
– The World of Truth and Reason

Emotional reactions such as this guys whole post... nothing but emotion, zero rationale.

It sounds like someone wasted a million dollars of company money and is trying discredit reality.

It's called "reverse rationalization" in psychology context. Humans want to believe that we are rational, logical creatures. But most of our decisions are emotionally based and made faster than we can rationalize them. Then, when our decisions are questioned, we go back and our brains try to remember there being logic that we used to make the decision. If there is logic, we recall that logic. When there isn't logic, our brain freaks out and either constructs false logic to make it seem rational, but that often makes it seem even more crazy to outsiders looking at us spouting gibberish. And if our own brains realize the gibberish or this is pointed out, it can actually trigger the fight or flight response when all logic shuts down and we just panic.

@Minion-Queen said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I think we are going to do a good panel discussion. Allow people to ask anything they want but that is about as close to a "general" session as you really can get.

Like my big open room session at SpiceWorld 2013.

Yes! But everyone complained that it wasn't enough time.

Yes, it was way too short for what it was. Because it was lots of different topics rather than just one it could easily have gone longer than the standard time slot.

Literally just got off of the phone with someone who had a FreeNAS bug cause a system to become useless, just like the one case that happened today. But instead of it being the JPE encouraging a mistake, the same problem happened through a GUI bug. One of the big risks that the JPE introduces is that the GUI is all "extra" points of failure and has nowhere near the testing of the standard OS tools. So a little big can cause a lot of damage, as it did. The entire SAN had to be replaced due to a small bug in the FreeNAS interface.

aside from my two desktops that are servers my home network is far better than most SMBs.

@Steven said:

Yes, it's true!

StorageCraft recently announced the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect SPX (or just SPX) which provides comprehensive DR support for Ubuntu, Red Hat (RHEL), and CentOS Linux.

SPX represents a product built from the ground up by StorageCraft developers and it provides another component in the over all StorageCraft Recover-Ability solution--a platform for building fast and reliable enterprise level DR services.

If you're interested in trying out this new product to see how well it works in your environment, please visit the StorageCraft website and download a trial today. We look forward to seeing you online.

Cheers!

WOOHOO! ABOUT TIME!

@scottalanmiller Exactly, otherwise if you could get the real un-altered warranty stats from these companies it'd go a long way to giving you what you want. It'd be a frosty day in hell before they released it, but maybe you could get a NDA and a research grant, release the data in a decade so they are safe.

Yeah, it's really quite striking-- just goes to show how important it is to have various layers of protection against different threats.

@GUIn00b said in Practical RAID Decision Making:

I guess it would have to be a very specific concern to opt for the parity overhead in favor of the "added protection" over a statistically very rare potential failure scenario of 4-drive RAID-10.

It's a specific failure scenario that even when it happens, there's no way to know if the same scenario would have been protected under RAID 6 because most scenarios where RAID 10 would fail, RAID 6 would also fail during its recovery mode (nearly 100%.) But the chances that it would face that recovery scenario are higher.

The complexity comes from choosing single unpredictable failure scenarios. After a failure has occurred, if we had the ability to pick how to have protected against it in the past, yes, RAID 6 would be chosen sometimes. There's a known example to explain why you can't use this in real life. It's the seatbelt problem.

Seatbelts save lives. On average, by far, wearing a seatbelt protects you. But there are special cases where the seatbelt can be what causes you to die. Yet statically, you never skip wearing a seatbelt because it is a one in a million chance that the seatbelt will cause a death rather than preventing one. And at the time that you choose to wear or not to sear wear your seatbelt you have no idea which type of accident you will have.

So we know that wearing the seatbelt is the safer bet. Seatbelts are like RAID 10. You can't know how things will go wrong, and in this scenario, RAID 10 protects you much more often than RAID 6 does.

@jvwelch welcome to MangoLassi!

Timely article, thanks.

Good article, I enjoyed it.

Great article - covers all the bases. Separating the pricing from the model is key too. The only benefit I can still see to ownership is that you can eek out more time on old software if the business is going through lean times, whereas in the subscription model you'd get cut off. Similar to owning an old car and keeping it running with duct tape and baling wire.

Funny enough I just had this talk with our President about a 3D printer...

Thanks for this.. 😊
Now for my friends to read it.. 😏