I'm interested as well. But I would also like to see Nutanix and Simplivity in there because Scale uses KVM... I'd like to see the comparisons with Hyper-V, VMWare, and VSAN in other HCI's rather than by themselves or custom built if you know what I mean. Or perhaps that's for a different thread. Either way, still interesting.

@scottalanmiller I wish I could find the time to keep up. Some days I can get a small streak going, but not usually.

@Tim_G That's out of about 1 billion write Ops, and 750 million read Ops. So as time goes on the percentages will most likely change.

@travisdh1 It is. And they are using an SSD cache to speed up read/writes to those slow 3.5" drives. About 98% of all writes and an average of about 75% of all reads are to/from SSD cache.

@scottalanmiller That must have been the issue, it's working now.

I did see a pop up saying I don't have permissions. I'll get the exact text...

New arrival, set to run Hyper-V 2016 for a smaller company:

Here's another like it, with a slightly different configuration already racked:

Excellent post. It's not often one really thinks about things like this, and it's true.

@scottalanmiller Yup, this is why you use Vendors for one thing, and one thing only: purchasing things. That's it. The furthest you should go is asking what features the product has, and how it works. Their goal isn't to make as little money as possible from you because they are taking the interests of your business first. You won't get the best solution if you leave it up to the vendor and let them do your job for you.

@scottalanmiller There's a button in your "My Profile".

I'm curious and thought it would be interesting to see what others in the MangoLassi.it community are doing on Spiceworks.

I'll start:

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Einstein

(... although there is argument it wasn't reallysaid by him, see:)

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8742/did-einstein-say-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-en

Ohh they updated it!

@Tim_G I can't recommend that enough... I'll probably never outgrow it (until software specs require more than it has at least).

For my workstation at work, I'm very happy with my Dell Precision T3610. It's got a great Xeon in it, 16bg RAM (upgraded from 8 since I was always running out), and a nice Nvidia Quadro... dual monitor set-up.

Here's mine!

https://www.duolingo.com/tjgruber

@scottalanmiller That's a bit mind-twisting...

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Admit Failure On Mobile Phones:

@Tim_G said in Microsoft Admit Failure On Mobile Phones:

It makes me think that all the haters of Win10 Mobile have never given it a real shot, and just jump on the anti-Win10 Mobile band wagon right away to fit in and feel good with their iPhone and Android buddies.

Of course not, after WIndows Mobile 8 I'll never trust them on mobile again. That was so bad. Everything about it was bad. The interface, the apps, the way that things worked, the crap that they tried to state was impressive. Fool me once, and all that. Gave it an honest try and it was just garbage. And that was when it was doing "well" and people thought that it might take off. Now that it is dying and they are killing off support I'm even less inclined to try it.

I gave both Android and Windows Mobile a try for a long time. But in the end, I need a reliable device that works. Both failed to deliver that.

Hmm, I don't see any of that negative stuff with it right now. I never tried Windows Mobile 8, but I know it's great now (in Win10 Mobile). I'm not sure what would make anything else better. I have all the apps I need if that's still the thing everyone says.

Personally, I don't see how Win10 Mobile doesn't take off.

I was a crazy Android fanboy. And before that, iPhone.

So last year I bought a Microsoft 950XL (lumia), which was my first experience with Win10 mobile... or any Win Mobile for that matter.

And there is no possible way I could EVER go back to Android or iOS now... I'm spoiled. I love every single thing about this phone and Win10 Mobile. It just flows so well. And believe me, I was a total die-hard Google and Android everything for personal use just under a year ago. Now I'm completely changed around to all thanks to Win10 Mobile and the 950 XL.

I feel like one of those fake success stories right now... but I'm serious.

It makes me think that all the haters of Win10 Mobile have never given it a real shot, and just jump on the anti-Win10 Mobile band wagon right away to fit in and feel good with their iPhone and Android buddies.

/endrant

@scottalanmiller SWEET write up SAM!

Now I don't have to type it out every time the question is brought up... I'll just link to this.

Will save me so much time.