Best posts made by Reid Cooper

Congratulations on being back at work.

@hobbit666 You can install anywhere. On the same server is fine, on a different server is fine. It connects over the XAPI interface, so very flexible.

@EddieJennings said in Which IT role I am suitable and to which should I apply for ?:

This has been such a great thread to read, as I can empathize with @wirestyle22 with the knowledge and self-expectation problem. And I can empathize with the OP with trying to determine a direction.

Career choices are hard. So many options but the route you pick affects you for so long.

As long as the AV is catching something that hasn't run yet, you've been protected.

Soft skills are very important. The ability to present information to users, to management - so many people working in IT can't do that or do that very poorly. Classes in presentation skills, sales, marketing and so forth would be valuable.

Xeons are the same architecture. i3-i7 are not exactly a thing on their own.

IT is always the last to know.

One script to BIND them.

So, asking for a friend, but it's been a hot minute and I don't know where the game is today, especially with everything happening in 2020. Looking to get out into the playing field again, getting the resume polished up, and looking for work from home work, something in the IT Manager (but actually technical) realm. What's out there today? Where do you even post? I guess Monster and CareerBuilder are still out there, I think Indeed is the big name, and I'm sure LinkedIn is a place to look. Anyone know of anything else? Any general tips of where to start today, especially for work from home?

This is more out of interest and not something that I want to do. But I cannot seem to be able to look it up. Can you make a software parity RAID array and install Windows Server to it? I know that you can with software RAID 1, but I have a feeling that with parity RAID you cannot. But I just can't find a source for that.

I think @NetworkNerd has some insight into manufacturing ERP systems here in the US.

Seems like the totally free of NextCloud is a pretty big factor. Most of us have pretty tight budgets, so being able to totally demo and test and even deploy NextCloud without further approval is great.

How does the caching work on Starwind storage? I've read that I can use RAM cache, and obviously there are the disks in RAID. Can I have an SSD tier between the two? Can I have multiple tiers like a huge RAID 6 of SATA drives, a smaller RAID 10 of SAS 10Ks, a smaller SSD RAID 5 array and then the RAM on top?

@BRRABill said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:

Hmmm, activation servers are down.

Are we surprised?

Awesome. Will check it out.

You can also point out things like....

"We obviously see how this benefits you personally, you are doubling the quote while pushing all of the risk on to us while making us dependent on you for support. No question there, we know why this is your go to solution. But we aren't interested in that, what we want to know is where does this benefit us given that clearly it's not for performance, safety or cost. I'm uncertain why you would feel comfortable pitching this without a clear RIO."

Huge new drives starting to ship....

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2599484/seagates-monstrous-8tb-hard-drive-is-the-most-spacious-storage-yet.html

@BBigford said in Offline files nightmare:

But another aspect would rise I would think, and that's 'continued investment'.

That's just an alias for the "sunk cost fallacy."

The Parallella Supercomputer is finally available and it is only $99 per node. So far it looks like only Ubuntu is certified for it.

@wrx7m said in Offline files nightmare:

@BBigford This is why I have a GPO to disable offline files. I have mostly seen it be a PITA, than actually work. I was interested in Windows Work Folders but that requires Enterprise and our laptops are only on Pro. Also, the initial server setup seemed to be pretty involved.

I've always found it to be flaky. It's a neat idea, no clue why it is so bad.