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    Banks: "Don't trade on Coinbase."

    Seeing this crap, makes me love my bank even more. I use USAA and it was one of the initial investors in Coinbase and also has direct integration, so I see my wallet balances on the bank’s dashboard and mobile app. Any bank that does this crap is garbage and should be avoided.
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    Windows Server 2012 R2 Tiered Storage for MS SQL?

    There are a lot of things to consider when doing Storage Spaces and a lot of bad information out there. Just to clear up some things, you can only use a mirrored space with tiering, no parity yet. Also, you can schedule the tiering optimization to occur whenever you want and however often you...
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    NAS Overhaul - Refresh Time!

    Sorry, but this statement is completely incorrect. Storage spaces has more in common with ZFS than it does with drive extender. And that's not a bad thing, but it is way more complex than you are stating and has been created as an enterprise grade storage solution. For instance, you can't...
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    VMware host-based antivirus

    You really want a vShield compatible system with that many VMs. TendMicro and Kaspersky both make enterprise level AV that works with vShield so you don't need to load an agent on every machine. The driver is a part of the VMWare tools and allows for protection through a single VM appliance...
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    Questions on server/client/storage strategy

    An all-in-one box doesn't need to be some complex virtualized beast. You can build an all-in-one with Windows 8.1 and get pretty much all the features of the virtualized method, but a lot simpler to implement and manage (for a non linux/bsd geek). With Core i3 hardware, you can run your...
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    Windows Server 2012 - Raid5 performance

    The fix is to use a pair of SSD's and enable Write Back Cache. You will need to size it for the amount of writes you will be doing on average, as it will fill up and the speed will reduce if it can't flush it fast enough. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387076.aspx#bkmk_wbc
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    What do you think about Pure Storage?

    We have one, FA-420 with three shelves and 10GbE iSCSI. In a word, spectacular. This will be the array we use for the next 5+ years minimum. We get new controllers every three years included in the maintenance contract and they upgrade their controllers at the same pace as Intel releases new...
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    Windows Storage Spaces - ReFS

    On the backup side, I use Crashplan to backup all my other devices to my main server, then license it to backup to the cloud. It backs up itself as well as the other computer's backups, so it's all inclusive and a single point of management. You can monitor all of the backs for all the...
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    Windows Storage Spaces - ReFS

    So, your main concern will be the number of drives you are comfortable purchasing at each expansion time. Minimums are: 2 drives with single copy mirror, 3 drives with single parity and 5 with double parity. The you will also want to consider the number of drives in a single chassis. This...
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    Windows Storage Spaces - ReFS

    And more to the performance, I stream three 720p movies and one 1080p high bitrate movie at the same time with no issues. The network and drives will not be a bottleneck for video these days. Even raw bluray rips barely touch a 1GbE connection on playback. This is on a mirrored pair of WD...
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    Windows Storage Spaces - ReFS

    The biggest issue with storage spaces, is that you really need to plan it out and understand what you are getting into. It's not as simple as adding a disk at a time to a big pool. You need to plan out the number of disks, whether you buy them all up front or not, how many it will take to...
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    Contemplating using ReFS + Storage Spaces ( 24 x 4TB Drives )

    One quick note, DFS-R is not supported when using ReFS at this time. So in this scenario you would be limited to NTFS on the volumes.
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    Contemplating using ReFS + Storage Spaces ( 24 x 4TB Drives )

    I think you might have some terminology and technologies mixed up a bit. Storage Spaces does not do any kind of replication on its own. It is a storage sub system that allows you to aggregate a bunch of disks into a pool and then provision volumes from the pool. In your current scenario I see...
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