Recent content by GMcDonnell

I'll look at these as well, thanks. In terms of stepping down in reliability from Samsungs the customer is willing to do that to save some $$ now. If the systems last another 3 years they'll be happy, because they intend to switch to an entirely new environment in 2 years with new gear but the...

I have those on the short list, thanks!

Those have good specs, thanks!

I have a client that wants to replace the hard drives in about 50 systems with SSDs. I've been using Samsung Evos and have been happy with them, but for this many systems it might be worth using a less expensive drive if there's a drive that has similar reliability to the Evos. If it matters...

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I've deployed over 100 of these drives so far. None have failed but they've only been in use for a year or so. About half of them are in servers / NAS boxes in a datacenter. The other half are in general purpose servers in client offices. I'm using them in hardware RAID 10 arrays with LSI SAS...

It's true that there's not much cost difference in the cards, but one thing to remember is that if you have an SAS3 controller and an SAS2 backplane or expander is that you will need SAS3 to SAS2 cables. These are available but not cheap.

Actually I'm referring to LSI's BIOS level configuration software. I find it to be quicker and more intuitive than the Areca web interface that one can access via the dedicated Ethernet connection.

I've had both Areca and LSI RAID controllers. I prefer the management interface of the LSI - I've found it to be faster and more intuitive. I'm currently only buying LSI cards and in fact the 9271-8i is my go to controller these days. Are you certain the LSI card is more? I just bought one from...

I have a couple of these. You can get a mounting plate from SuperMicro that lets you install two 3.5 inch or four 2.5 inch drives internally. These won't be hot swappable but you can connect the drives using standard SATA cables and boot the OS that way. For what it's worth I have one of these...

I wouldn't bother. I have two desktop systems (one at home, one at the office) that are pretty much identical. One has a 500GB 840 Evo and the other has a 250GB 850 Pro. Can't tell a lick of difference between them. I don't run Rapid on either of them for what that's worth.

I have a client in need of a relatively high performance MS SQL server. I'm looking at either Samsung 845DC or Intel DC S3610 drives. Will use separate (hardware) RAID arrays for the OS/SQL binaries (R1), MDF files (R10) LDF files (R1) and TempDB (R1). Anyone have experience with either of...

Crashplan / Crashplan Pro is fine for relatively small amounts of data. But their software seems to choke at around 750GB - at that point it seems to start over. And it doesn't use anywhere near the total bandwidth available - right now my test rig is using 3 mbps out of the 100 mbps connection...

Just use a service that supports Rsync over SSH. There are any number of vendors that will supply it for 20 cents per gig per month or less. I currently back up over 25 terabytes of data for my clients to a server I keep at a colo. My cost including space, power, bandwidth and amortizing the...

In my experience these are great boxes, but the type of RAM they use is expensive.