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Maybe https://www.inoreader.com is for you. They just recently added filtering and there are multiple sharing options available including email.

This could be an explanation. Although this would be contradictory to the way most people expect how the POH value works. In my experience HDDs and most SSDs just count the hours the drive is powered on. Unfortunately I don't have regular access to these drives anymore. I'd be curious to do...

The BX100 I built into a friends system works fine so far. The MX100 I built into another friends PC, too. Nothing bad to say about performance or compatibility issues. But there is one thing that bothers me. Both of them are not honest with their Power-On-Hours smart values. They just do not...

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Thanks for this extensive testing orgy :D I didn't expect to see such a big boost. But as impressive these numbers are, I wonder if the array performs equally well in your intended production workload. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to diminish your effort in tweaking the settings, but...

Are you trying to do some "partition magic" that will save you from the downsides of the RAID0 question in this thread?

Firmware or driver update release notes may give additional information about the issues solved or about the remaining ones. I don't know what kind of issues there were, but according to your benchmark numbers this array doesn't seem to have performance issues. Maybe the LSI/Samsung...

Maybe this article is relevant to your problem. Seems as if the ISO with the Driver Rollup is giving some more people a bad time and not for the first time.

There should be no need to select certain updates. The tool is a collection of scripts that query the Windows Update servers for updates lists, dynamically create a download repository consisting of updates that have a static URL and updates with ever changing URLs and dumps them in a folder...

Thanks for clarifying the spanning mode. I re-read your first post and realized assuming span would be mirror doesn't make any sense because you mentioned the available space is 8TB either way.

Since Windows Vista updates are no longer language based. There is only one single update for all language versions. The only different versions are for 32 and 64 bit systems. AFAIK even the service pack files for client and server versions are identical. So that means WSUS Offline Updater will...

WSUS Offline Update or maybe BatchPatch

If SPAN is Buffalos term of calling RAID1 or mirroring it is the way to go. When a drive fails there should be no need for recovery tools at all. The data is mirrored on both drives and if one drives dies everything is still on the other one. Obviously there is only 4TB usable space available...

As a passionate hoarder this would have been some nice storage... but unfortunately "Not available in your region" even if I change my region to the US :mad:

EVC mode probably isn't really noticeable on the performance side. Unless you are really sure some special software makes use of these instruction sets mapped out in EVC mode. Could be something that makes use of AES instructions for crypto stuff for example. But an EVC cluster with greatly...

Your budget of $175k is quite nice, but I would definitely reduce the number of hosts for this project. Up to 6 hosts for only 24 VMs seems a bit oversized. You pay VMware per socket, so that's 12 licenses to purchase. In this case you would use 1 vShpere license per 2 VMs - not very...

No problem with updates - if you are confident you are better off without them, I won't advertise them anymore. On virtualisation: If you try Oracles VirtualBox you can have a look at their extensive online manual or a guide like this. Even a search on Youtube gets you a ton of video...

I would refrain from partitioning your SSD. Putting "changing" and "unchanging" parts of data on different partitions on the same SSD won't change anything in terms of conserving your SSD. The SSD is a single piece of hardware, partitioning is just ... "nice to view for humans"... but doesn't...

A VM is a virtual machine. It is like a PC running inside a PC. There are programs like Virtualbox (free), VMware Player (free) or VMware Workstation (need some $) that run on your Windows 7 machine and simulate an entire PC inside a window. A good way to run old and no longer supported software...

I am not sure if I completely understand what you are trying to accomplish, but wouldn't it be better to just run this old stuff inside a 98/XP VM? Turning off security updates and living in constant fear that installing new software or other changes to the OS may destroy this fragile...

You might need something like this to connect a LVDS panel to a standard video card. Maybe this thread about a custom display made from a Chromebook Pixel panel can give you additional info.

Even though the R710 is a really nice piece of hardware, I'd rather spend this 1k$ budget on something that yields more bang per buck. The C6100 and C1100 are available in numbers at mostly reasonable prices, although maybe not as cheap as they used to be - due to rising demand. I'd love to...

The 32GB limit has been canceled with ESXi 5.5. And there is no such thing as enough or even too much RAM ;)

Did you flash the controller to IT mode? I don't have one of these controllers, but flashing them to IT mode (= getting rid of the RAID functionality, as far as I understand) seems pretty popular among the ZFS guys. Maybe it's in IT mode and the management software feels not too...

You can check out WSUS Offline Update It is free afaik, but donations are appreciated. The origin of this tool/script solution is from the German computer magazine c't. But the author has built a dedicated website some years ago, including English documentation, faq etc.

Yeah, Davy Jones' crew is quite a large one :D I suppose this is one of the benefits of serving on the virtualisation mothership.

Be careful not to incur the wrath of the mummy ;) There is quite a list of app-virt programs in this thread: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=338319 some of them seem to be free or trials available. But for entire VMs I only heard of portable virtualbox and Windows To Go...

I think the main issue is not so much how safe/safer RAID6 is compared to RAID10 or other RAID levels, but rather if the whole concept is well suited for the intended use case. You got a 4 node cluster with 90 VMs (and more to come in the future), and a single storage server with 20TB (maybe...

That escalated quickly (from home lab to the playground for real men ;)) Nevertheless it would be interesting what kind of toys the [H]ard vmware folks play with at home. I guess licensing all the nice things for a home lab is a smaller hurdle for you than for the rest of us mortals. With no...

You might wanna skip logmein, since they discontinued their free service

Does your company use roaming user profiles? Maybe there is something wrong with your windows user profile and while you switched to the desktop machine the damaged profile was loaded there and the problem followed. Problems can originate from not enough disk space (on the file server where...

I had issues with a cheap external enclosure too. It was sold empty to fill in your own hdd, but every now and then the connection would drop and instantly reconnect. Complete ext. HDDs from Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung and ADATA worked fine for me so far. I don't think externals are worse than...

http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ Some numbers on certain HDD models used by backblaze in their storage pods. Maybe this is helpful for some folks if they are in need for some fuel to ignite the pyre of their most "beloved" hdd manufacturer ;)

Select the VM - Edit settings - Tab "Resources": that's the place where you find limits & reservations for CPU, memory and disk. If the VM is in a Resource Pool you might want to check the limits and reservations of the pool too. Can you give some additional information about the CPU load...

So I wouldn't think about spending any money for replacement drives if there is no problem with them. If the SMARTs are good there is no immediate reason to replace them just because of age. Given the power-on-hours the server and the drives seem to be ~6 years old. How long do you intend to...

Did your VM end up in a (different) ressource pool with limits set? Or were there any changes with your vCPU settings, like going from 2socket/2core to 1socket/4core so SQL might behave differently? Perhaps some SQL and/or Windows digging can reveal a hint where the additional load is coming...

As nicholasfarmer said, there could be a performance drop if your host has e.g. 2 sockets with 24GB of RAM each (48GB total) and a single VMs RAM exceeds the amount of RAM a single socket can provide. In this example the additional 8GB for your VM would come from a second CPU socket "further"...

Nice to hear there is some hope. I didn't know about ReclaiMe before, but if this works out it's definitely a bookmark in my tools folder.

I have no experience with intel chipset RAIDs, but as long as there was no disk scrubbing while you rebuilt the RAID (sometimes called initialization or the like in the RAID BIOS), there might be a small chance to recover the partitions. More likely if the rebuild process was an actual rebuild...