how critical are those backups? If you needed them and lost them, do you lose more than $800?

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

thats a good problem to have

I am considering one big raid 5 with SSD's. My question is this, with equal capacity, is there any real difference between a large number of smaller disks vs a smaller number of larger disks? Assume that everything else is equal in regards to the controller, etc. I am looking at a drive count between say 4 and 16 and ~10-14TB capacity.

you still have a landline? Isn't that like having a physical server these days?

also, with larger drive count SSD arrays, is there a point at which I should be looking at raid 6?

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@hobbit666 said in Non-IT News Thread:

BBC News - David Schwimmer: 'I didn't steal beer' from Blackpool shop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-45971252

He sure denied that quickly. Hmmmm... suspicious.

that sure looks like him though!

Based on the recommendation from SAM, I am looking into adding tape into our offsite backup routine, specifically LTO-7. I have an existing host that I would like to use as it's got room for an internal 5-1/4 drive, its a supermicro tower server with the X9DRi-F board. Since the drive is SAS, do I need to add an HBA, or can I use something like this?

I am also petitioning for cloud backups as an alternative.

I've always read it as mon-god-b

I am probably looking at more like next day replacement

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Donahue said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

yuck

It was quick to prepare.

that's your excuse?

For the sake of this thread, I am probably going to use 3.84TB SSD's, but the point remains.

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

I generally stay more in the Sci-fi arena, but there is something about the way those series did magic that I just really liked.

Sanderson is generally good exactly at that - inventing brand new and original systems of magic or superpowers, and really building a world around those. We are all tired of the usual spaceships and elven archers, Sanderson is unlike anyone else because he doesn't dabble in those tiresome stereotypes.

BTW, if you want another amazing and very original author - try Adrian Tchaikovsky (Empire in Black and Gold etc).

I haven't heard of that one, I will definitely check in out. I will recommend the safehold series by David Weber if you like historical/sci-fi

at this point, I would have to get management buy in to really consider cloud, I want to evaluate the options before hand to know how much I should or shouldn't be pushing for the cloud. Recent conversations with @scottalanmiller have me questioning our historical reasons and motivations for why we use what we use. In my case, we have a mix of prior misinformed speculation and my limited personal experience.

I don't see a reason to emulate tape if I'm not going to use tape, but I really don't know

@dyasny said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@Donahue said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

David Weber

I've got Weber in my queue, might get there in a few months

He’s also in my top 3. I’ve read most of his stuff.

I am in the process of redoing my network. My plan is to just have a single VLAN, just for guest stuff that will not talk to anything else. If you have all those devices on separate VLANs, and they do need to talk to each other, then you may be introducing a unnecessary point of failure, specifically the L3 switch. If they can all be on the same VLAN, or untagged, then you should be able to drop in just about any switch in a pinch and keep the network up when there is an outage. Ask me how I know.

I tried to talk someone out of the IPOD on

If this is just a DNS thing, what prevents someone from just changing the DNS settings on their device to bypass it? I am asking because I am actually curious.

dang autospell. distraction.

@WLS-ITGuy said in Are VLANs Appropriate Here:

@Donahue said in Are VLANs Appropriate Here:

then why do VLAN 1 and 2 need to be on different VLANs?

Technically they don't but I kept all LAN traffic outside of the WIFI scope

I am setting mine up so that all my stuff on the corp network can be switched, not routed. I am coming from a setup where everything was separated, and its was all inefficient. When my router blew up, it took most of my network with it because it all had to be routed.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

discraction

apparently chrome thinks discraction is a real word. It does not underline it.