What Are You Doing Right Now
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
Didn't think of that, but I reckon they'll be spinners.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
I have strong feelings about RAID5 and this question is the only one that's important right now.
So do we all!
outdated tech for such large drives. I was wondering why they didn't go to 4 drives and RAID 10, these are fairly important servers.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!HDD, SSD, or NVMe drives?
HDD = bad
SSD or NVMe = fine
Didn't think of that, but I reckon they'll be spinners.
Oh for pity's sake.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.
That'll change soon. Upcoming Mac hardware won't run Windows soon.
Have you tried non-Mac hardware at a similar price point? The specs on Apple Macs are super low for their price point. They are only fast because they are so expensive and most people won't buy non-Macs in the same price range. But typically if you do, I think the performance will crush the Apple hardware?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.
That'll change soon. Upcoming Mac hardware won't run Windows soon.
Have you tried non-Mac hardware at a similar price point? The specs on Apple Macs are super low for their price point. They are only fast because they are so expensive and most people won't buy non-Macs in the same price range. But typically if you do, I think the performance will crush the Apple hardware?
Yeah, maybe? I did buy a super speedy laptop I spec'd up with plenty of RAM and NVMe disk and it was disappointingly slow.
I had my Mac sitting there doing nothing, so threw W10 on it and it blitzes the laptop. -
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.
What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.
Same spec hardware in non-mac will be identical I think. Probably cheaper too.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
It was pingable, but no other services were working.
Could not connect to RDP, ScreenConnect was offline, it was not handing out DHCP or answering DNS.But because I did not catch it for hours, I could also not connect to it with the Hyper-V console.
I hard killed the Hypervisor (Hyper-V 2012 R2) via iDRAC 6 power cycle button.
After reboot, all the virtual machines booted, but still no communications with the DC except ping.
Stopped the DC VM, started the replica of the DC on the backup hypervisor, and I was able to then manage things with Hyper-V Console. Disabled the DC on the primary hypervisor and rebooted everything again, and all VMs came up normal.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
Today I had another Hyper-V 2012 R2 with a Server 2012 R2 DC acting weird, but everything was still reachable. Rebooted everything under a controlled reboot and it all came back up normal. but it took almost double the normal reboot time.
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Video editing.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
It was pingable, but no other services were working.
Could not connect to RDP, ScreenConnect was offline, it was not handing out DHCP or answering DNS.But because I did not catch it for hours, I could also not connect to it with the Hyper-V console.
I hard killed the Hypervisor (Hyper-V 2012 R2) via iDRAC 6 power cycle button.
After reboot, all the virtual machines booted, but still no communications with the DC except ping.
Stopped the DC VM, started the replica of the DC on the backup hypervisor, and I was able to then manage things with Hyper-V Console. Disabled the DC on the primary hypervisor and rebooted everything again, and all VMs came up normal.
that's a bit of a handful. well done.
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@Dashrender The XPS are nice, but I doubt I would ever use the "tablet" function.
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@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.
It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Did someone here the other day have a DC that looked alive but when logged onto it just had a white screen?
Was it @JaredBusch ???
I've got one now.
Today I had another Hyper-V 2012 R2 with a Server 2012 R2 DC acting weird, but everything was still reachable. Rebooted everything under a controlled reboot and it all came back up normal. but it took almost double the normal reboot time.
HyperV Reboots are always up in the air on timing.
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@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.
It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.
Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.
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Morning all.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.
It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.
Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.
Don't be afraid to shop around. I paid $1600 for my laptop. Intel Core I5, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA 1050Ti (4GB Video Ram), 1TB NVME + 1TB SSD. It's an MSI GL73 from a vendor on Amazon. It's coming up on 3 years old and runs like the day I bought it. It runs pretty much anything I throw at it with no difficulty.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.
It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.
Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.
Don't be afraid to shop around. I paid $1600 for my laptop. Intel Core I5, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA 1050Ti (4GB Video Ram), 1TB NVME + 1TB SSD. It's an MSI GL73 from a vendor on Amazon. It's coming up on 3 years old and runs like the day I bought it. It runs pretty much anything I throw at it with no difficulty.
Yeah that's a good point. I was looking at a precision because I don't care about gaming on my laptop. However I was looking at models that had a nice graphics card for $1200 with 1tb nvme and 32 gb ram. I don't know if I should just go that route or not. Not sure why a non gaming laptop with similar specs would be so much more expensive.
