What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
if he really put a 60 GB SSD in - how old is that drive? I mean sure it's likely someone is still making drives that small, but I definitely don't see them for sale anywhere.
Hell I don't see anything smaller than 265 GB SSD these days.
He did a Drive swap for one of our terminals - we dont need very much space on the drives - he pulled this from another terminal we had that was running the same OS from a different site that upgraded - I couldn't tell you how old the drive was but it was reused not new
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Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
Maybe this should go under "I can't Even..." thread? lol
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@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
Maybe this should go under "I can't Even..." thread? lol
Yeah, but what makes it even worse and I just thought about it is that 2 Western Digital "Compute" 1TB disks were sold with it as well, 3.5" spinning rust.
So yeah.... I'm done asking why and when it burns to the ground I'll take the beating, fix the issue, charge the customer and move on...
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
Maybe this should go under "I can't Even..." thread? lol
Yeah, but what makes it even worse and I just thought about it is that 2 Western Digital "Compute" 1TB disks were sold with it as well, 3.5" spinning rust.
So yeah.... I'm done asking why and when it burns to the ground I'll take the beating, fix the issue, charge the customer and move on...
Sometimes that is all you can do, all the while shaking your head in disgust. I realized a while a go that some, if not most, people learn by pain. It could be physical, emotional, financial or all three at one time.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
and what makes it a "server"?
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
and what makes it a "server"?
My guess is the label, marketing or lead salesman.
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@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering why the heck anyone would sell a microserver, and then to make it worse it has no server functionality at all.
No out of band management, no capacity for raid (besides Windows) or Linux MD (which I can't use Linux) oh and then a Windows 10 Pro license with it as well...
and what makes it a "server"?
My guess is the label, marketing or lead salesman.
Yeah the name on the front of the box. It's a "MicroServer Gen10"
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@wrcombs just to add to the confusion … there are hybrid SSD HDD made be Seagate.
IIRC the controller puts frequently accessed stuff on the SSD and moves less accessed items to the HDD.
I may be over simplifying it.
Seagate didn’t jump on the all flash bandwagon at the start as they believed that hybrid devices were the future
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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wrcombs just to add to the confusion … there are hybrid SSD HDD made be Seagate.
IIRC the controller puts frequently accessed stuff on the SSD and moves less accessed items to the HDD.
I may be over simplifying it.
Seagate didn’t jump on the all flash bandwagon at the start as they believed that hybrid devices were the future
That's interesting , I didn't even know that was a thing and we've used Seagate for a lot of our Drives for our PC's.
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Fixing an inherited PowerShell script.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Fixing an inherited PowerShell script.
Ha! I've seen worse scripts than this; however, all of its boolean tests are
($anActualBooleanValue -eq "True"), which apparently does work, but I wouldn't trust it. -
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
($anActualBooleanValue -eq "True")
"True" is a string.
A boolean value would be $True or $False.
$anActualBooleanValue -eq $TrueTechnically, you can do
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@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
($anActualBooleanValue -eq "True")
"True" is a string.
A boolean value would be $True or $False.
$anActualBooleanValue -eq $TrueTechnically, you can do
if ($anActualBooleanValue) {}Yep. Hence my critique, and my surprise that the comparison to a string seemed to work. Needless to say those instances will be fixed.
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Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.
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@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.
Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.
Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -
It took me 1 hour but it was successfully.
Long life for Lto Tapes !!
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.
Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -
This seems completely normal to me, maybe the laws of retainment are more strict in NY, but I want to say that 7 years is the minimum that records need to be kept.
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@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@iroal said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Recovering a file from a Backup of 2014, the backup are in 6 Lto-3 tapes.
Recovering a file from seven years ago? Wow -
This seems completely normal to me, maybe the laws of retainment are more strict in NY, but I want to say that 7 years is the minimum that records need to be kept.
Oh it wasn't about the retention time... it was having to recover a file from that long back.. Most cases I see / have done are within the last day/week/month. Not 7 years.
