Recent content by madrebel

why is it that some folks can't accept reality. The linux kernel powers more critical day to day computing tasks than the windows kernel by not by simple multiples, nay friends, linux out muscles microsoft by POWERs. Current industry darling buzzwordy bullshit Phones and tablets Android...

forget net neutrality, you're too far up the stack. until the laws that govern the speed of light from point A to point B through a fiber optic cable are manipulable, or quantum entanglement is solved in a manner that allows near instant 'interweb like' communication (for computers), there are...

microsoft is on a cloud hosted trajectory. in X years they want us all subscribing to their service which IMO is a much more honest cost model than software licenses which have no inherent tangible value. as long as steamOS can browse the web and or contains a full blown web browser that can...

You grossly underestimate the market's appetite for shiny bullshit. 'People' will do all manner of bullshit if they feel they will ... 1) get laid 2) have something their friends don't 3) personalize it so its 'theirs' 4) if they feel doing something that may require a bit of elbow grease...

My next project is Kodi (xbmc .. really guys, kodi was the best name you could come up with ...) and steam on linux. Using shortcuts and Advanced launcher you can (i do it with emulators and steam games now) integrate your gaming library with XBMC. Super simple albeit cumbersome to setup and...

I wouldn't count steamOS out yet. I would wager a decent amount of money that more games are played each day via a linux kernel is significantly higher than a windows kernel ... All told mind you. Steam, no doubt, most of those games are run via windows. The market as a whole though, android...

if the zeusRAM is 'too expensive' then you're in a position where absolute best performance doesn't matter anyway. sure, you want that performance but can't justify the cost. you then need to be happy with whatever performance a slc/mlc/emlc/tlc drive can deliver. also the zeusRAMs are down to...

nimble sucks. i could go into why, but i won't. they talk a great game but ... yeah. best of luck if you go with them. netapp is overpriced but generally just works. if you don't mind paying $1500 for a $300 drive, by all means go with netapp.

it's possible yes. i'm not as familiar with WD's sata line. however i imagine there ARE motor differences in the power saving drives or really anything that has a variable spin rate. 15k, 10k, those drives have motors specifically designed to run at top speed 24/7 for 5 years minimum right. now...

mmmm, highly unlikely you're going to find the same thing in your example. First, fairly certain most of WD's 'SAS' buisiness is from hitachi and now under the HGST banner. further, in WD's world the color key word differentiates the target market. what i have found with various 'green' drives...

there is no difference physically within the same family. ex: seagate constellation es.3 sata seagate constellation es.3 sas the only difference is the control board which has single port sata or dual port sas. i don't have a firmware dump from the sata drives it's possible they attempt to...

so re-write is a random pattern right. take blocks 4-10, read them, copy them, then write the new blocks. so whats occuring on the physical platters is you're taking blocks that were on sectors blah blah (towards the outer edge) and re-writing them to new sectors (will be on different/sectors...

use iometer or iozone if you want better source input. DD is ping for the IO subsystem. It is useful for proving disks are alive and useful to gather quick benchmarks to rule out hardware as the problem source. beyond that though, not incredibly useful

SM has a similar mobo for sandy and newer xeons. as i recall its 7 x8 slots. Thats 56 lanes for expansion, 8 for onboad networking, and then 16 lanes reserved for system CPU comms bringing us to 80 lanes (each xeon can do 40). If you're comfortable with your current design, i would stick with...

using it, a lot of important things occurred and or were fixed in this version. highly recommend upgrading all your old 3.x boxes. the unfortunate thing though, no graceful upgrade path. 4.x requires a fresh install. i've been testing 4.x for awhile now. its also worth noting that 4.x was...