In my "Mac SSD" thread, the final determination was decided by this comment:
"But if you find yourself in a situation where TRIM isn’t available, don’t panic—it’s nice to have, but it isn’t a requirement."

But all the reading I did got me to thinking. Do we really need TRIM, ever?

Most of the manufacturers these days say their SSD technology eliminates the need for TRIM. Do we believe that?

And what about in a server scenario, where the drive is behind a RAID card. Is TRIM even viable in this scenario?

ML is the place for all storage answers. So what is the answer here?

How many takes did it get to get the "full mouth" just right?

@MKM8DY said:

There has never been a thread that can't be cured with breakfast food.

What is that healthy looking fruit doing on there?

I never knew what soft water was until I was travelling (Indianapolis, I think) and was complaining about how slimy the water felt.

It was explained to me, and then I was like aha!

Amiga: the system us poor C64 owners always strived to get to one day.

Getting ready to go to my first "recliner seats" movie.

The Good Dinosaur, with my youngest.

@wrx7m said:

@scottalanmiller I started with LMI when they were free and stuck with them and paid 200 bucks a year. Last year they increased it without any notification to over $400 and so I checked out TeamViewer but they are still more expensive (at least they were when I last checked).

The main thing I liked about it after the price increase was that ninite pro had an auto updater for it. They also have one for TeamViewer. Do you know if ScreenConnect requires admin rights for updates?

Have you tried reaching out to TeamViewer?

I contacted them as a small shop and they offered a very low monthly cost. Much less than $200 a month. Much less than $100. At least for a 1 person shop.

@Joy said:

I saw his post in Facebook pretty busy and enjoying in Texas

You know when he isn't posting here he is busy!

I'm starting to think I should tell my kids they are even luckier than I had previously told them they are!

@scottalanmiller said:

They are fundamentally a bad idea. Very expensive to operate and relatively dangerous.

I know you feel strongly about many things, but that is something you won't be able to convince the women in my office to stop doing.

What do you recommend when people ask "What AV should I use at home?"

Most of the time, they are looking for a free product, like AVAST or AVG.

@Dashrender said:

Why does your accountant need to be local?

How else are they going to take anyone to lunch?

I typically would recommend the free ones, because I was never a fan of the "big" paid ones, Norton and McAfee. (Can't tell you how many times uninstalling McAfee has fixed odd computer issues.)

But if Webroot is so beloved by ML (which means a lot) and is that much better than the free versions, that will be my recommendation.

@RojoLoco said:

And I would expect that sort of thread from a 17 year old. But not a 40-plus w/ some alphabet soup in his title.

Don't go back and read any of my posts.

I am getting ready to set up my new server, which is going to run Hyper-V, with two VM instances (at least) of Windows Server on it.

I have a RAID 5 (SSD, don't worry!) array that will be more than enough for these two VMs.

How do people typically partition the drive on the Hyper-V server? Do you just make one big partition since there won't be any data on it, per se, other than the VMs?

Also, what is the best practice these days for setting up a Windows Server for my VM instances? Used to be 20GB, though I know that's way out of the times today. Or since these will be VMs, do you make them dynamic, and not worry about the size?

That site would be awesome if you could insert pictures of other people.

WATCHING INTENTLY.

(for no reason, really)

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Everyday. I'm in PJs right now. They are warm, fuzzy and have ice skating penguins on them.

I've known @scottalanmiller enough to trust him with this statement... but other folks might be thinking pic or it didn't happen, lol.

I was actually thankful there was no pic.

@MattSpeller said:

Did you tweak the block size in the RAID array to optimize for a certain size of file? Would it make a lot of difference on an SSD?

I was tweaking it on the logging server I'm setting up and it made a TREMENDOUS difference on spinning rust.

No.

I posted those numbers with the hopes someone would chime in with that kind of info, but no one ever did, really. I htink it got lost because of the topic header.

Later today I will repost under a separate topic, I think.

@gjacobse said:

So True @scottalanmiller - The good days have out numbered the not so good days. People you work WITH makes all the difference. We have a great staff. Passionate about the staff AND the clients.

That really is worth so much.