Recent content by lightp2

casual observation only, 1. Mackintire has good suggestion - you need to have a budget. 2. If you have an official published allocated budget, then you can review the next step. 3. If you do not have official allocated budget, as stated in your reply above, "budget freeze" 3.1...

Dear Ikramer, If you may, kindly review your preferable eventuality 1. Are you a one-size-fit-all grand builder ? 2. 4-wheel rammer ? 3. suitable precise tools for relevant tasks relatively original Unix philosophy? 4. Continuous improvement enthusiasts, p movers... Due to your...

with your stated budget, maybe LTO-5 or LTO-6 tape drive + tape media ? Per the current tech trend, two-layer option is possible, RAID-5 4x2TB Disk for immediate disk backup location, then transfer them onto LTO-5/6 tape media at later stage. Tape media where normal simple storage operational...

just observation only, no distraction to points in various posts. For example, 1. For RAID-6, you can consider 2 sets of 6x2TB RAID-6, 2 x 8TB usable. total 12 disks. 2. For RAID-10, you can consider 3 sets of 4x2TB RAID-10, 3 x 4TB usable, total 12 disks 3. For RAID-10 and RAID-6, you...

10 x 2 TB RAID-6 approximately 16TB usable. 10 x 3 TB RAID-6 approximately 24TB usable. multistage complication to get additional 8TB, hmm... no distraction to your original plan, just another option 1. Buy 3 x 4TB in RAID-5 usable 8TB put in external enclosure -- else if you have spare...

Only personal observation here, nothing serious 1. Hence, for the precision crowd, this is exactly what they want to hear, XP/Vista/7 desktop mode it does mostly what many already perceived and verified suitable, in certain way commonly accepted approach to many things. 2. For the...

The following factors are involved. 1. Some Microsoft Windows 8.x tablets come with Microsoft Office 2013 Home and Student Edition. 2. Bring your own device (BYOD) scenario for some users --------------------------------------- From Microsoft perspective, kindly clarify 1. Are...

Hi, to clarify 1. If I have Windows 8 now. I need to download 8.1 from Windows Store. If I have 100 machines, that's 100 times download. 2. If I deploy Windows 8.1 new machines. Obviously I do not need to update to 8.1. However, maybe there will be time for 8.2, and then I will have to...

Hi, Thanks for the concise answers. 1. Apparently there is no available separate file update (ala normal service pack) for Windows 8 to 8.1. Users need to go through App Store. 2. Based on this, tentatively 2.1 Microsoft Windows 8 needs fast Internet pipe for point release, no credit card...

Dear All, 1. I asked a similar question recently on Apple Forum here. 2. I personally understand perhaps the reasoning, not to debate here. It does pose certain challenge in certain scenario. Just need to know more basis due to future work area deployment. If you need to ask, I only have...

Hi, CEpeep and others 1. appreciate the link given. Will check further. 2. I understand overall it is probably due to several factors, and delicate. 3. At the moment, it appears Apple only wants user with credit card and fast Internet pipe. I personally can certainly understand the basic...

Hi, Indeed a perfectly sensible suggestion. Unfortunately this option is not available locally. I am not in the US. (SE Asia area). Local authorized Apple Premium Retail Stores do not offer gift cards. I checked with multiple local retail stores and none of them offer gift cards. The...

1. There are some Apple computers at work. 2. Generally support does not touch those systems. However, 10.9 upgrade has been made available for a while. End users request to follow, so support chose one for 10.9 3. Upgrade done. Seems OK. 4. However, OS updates now go through App Store...

another poster posted the following link previously on the forum, I think it is good info so repost here. credit to the original poster. From 32 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS & Linux MD RAID http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10

Personal observation with respect to post 1 1) Will there be a significantly less number of random freeze-ups, slowdowns, and error messages that I am constantly getting with Windows? --> generally Windows has larger permutation in terms of software/hardware/scenario so relatively it tends to...