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I only have one UPS and three different places where I plug computers. I have surge protectors for all my computer equipment though.

The SSD comes in a refurb computer. You don't know how much life is left into it. How many times its memory cells have been written. Granted, the chances that the drive is far in its lifespan are slim. I know I wouldn't risk it.

There was a significant performance gap between the Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs and the previous generaion. With that in mind, I'd pass. Even considering the SSD and 8GB RAM.

Add 1743$ to all my total prices above. I missed one row in Excel when I summed up the prices.

Nope, locally for now (about 12ft behind me). But I'm looking to ship everything off-site. I want to simplify our setup first.

We only have a /26.

I'd take the quad-core. First, it's easier to change a graphic card afterward than swapping a CPU (thermal paste, heatsink installation, often cramped location to connect the CPU fan cable). Secondly, an i5 3570+HD7750 needs less electrical juice than an i3-3220+HD7850. Not much less, but a...

pfsense would be better and easier to manage than our current OpenBSD 4.6-based firewall with its customized pf.conf file. Thanks for bringing it here.

SuperMicro SYS-8017R-TF+ : 1667.10$ Xeon E5-4607 (6c/12t - 2.2GHz) : 822.77$ each (4x = 3291,08$) Samsung M393B1K70DH0-CK0 8GB : 67.99$ (8x = 543,92$) Intel SSDSC2BA200G301 200GB : 499.99$ Linux : free Total : 4334.99$ More than 400,000ppd : priceless The same server with Xeon E5-4610 (2.4GHz...

Run a Big Unit on a quad-socket board filled with Xeon E5-46xx or Opteron 63xx and that's the kind of point returns you'll get. If you have 5K$ to 6K$ to put on FAH, that's the way to do it. At least, that's what I should have done instead of spending half as much on a bunch of weaker...

I only see pictures and frames, but no text.

I don't remember having read or heard about how well the M4 did in RAID arrays, but at those capacities, the M500 is starting to look like an interesting alternative in a NAS/SAN. Sure, its write endurance isn't very high, but if you don't write large amount of data, it could be interesting.

There's been an electrical outage earlier this afternoon and one of my machines now refuses to boot and smeel burn plastic. Great.

Eh...According to Reseller Ratings, it scores 9.6/10. How is that bad? And yes, we do have approved vendors, but they don't always have the parts I'm looking. As I wrote earlier, Superbiiz's prices on certain items are very low compared to what I can find elsewhere, hence my interest.

Superbiiz constantly has the best prices on the RAM I need for the server proposal I'm working on. And they advertize they have the sticks I want in stock to top it off. Is it too good to be true? Their prices are significantly below the rest of the market. Anyone here ever did business...

Speaking of IOps, it would probably be best if I'd use an Enterprise-class drive, like a Seagate Constellation ES.3 for instance. Those are typically capable of double the IOps that consumer drives can achieve. The link between both NAS wouldn't be 10 miles long. The SFP+ DAC cables are 1...

I'm way too busy too. Anyway, I've never used Google Docs and thanks to my great English speaking skills, the only way I could communicate with your customer would be with card boards, Will E. Coyote's style.

Thanks. I didn't know that existed. We use expensives Raritan KVM switches with the Ethernet KVM modules. There's no power control module with it. It's significantly more expensive than the Lantronix gear you linked. I'll include this in my proposal.

That is why I want to get two NAS configured to backup/replace each other. From Thecus's N12000Pro product page : That should do the trick. I'll look into your Isilon thing later. There's never too many backups. Also, Merc is right when he wrte that Coug doesn't want to complicate his life...

Nope. As for the huge SMP units, you need 16 cores or more in order to get them. I'm almost certain there are stats systems doing that, but I've never looked into this. When I want to know the details about a specific system, I just switch my KVM on it and check the stats. When everything...

I'll have to look into this. I wasn't aware that there was Hyper-V support elsewhere than on MS OSes. It would certainly be possible, but we are only two technicians here and neither of us ever programmed a NAS out of nothing before. It would be pretty time consuming and it would be...

My i7 2600K produces between 20Kppd and 26Kppd under Windows 8. My i7 3770 gets closer to 30K under Linux. Don't forget to drag the performance cursor to the right in order to get maximal production.

Verizon Terremark is also in the cloud business and they seem to be pretty big and well done. Their cloud runs on Cisco servers, according to the spokeman I met last Fall. ...Or you could create your own cloud platform with Openstack. I'm just saying.

Pencil pushers should never make technical decisions. A typical mid-range dedicated server cost ~150$-250$ per month, including reasonable networking bandwidth. Instances on EC2 will cost significantly more (2x or 3x). It simply isn't worth it. Like Timwhit wrote, EC2 is good for development...

Oh and I made a mistake. It's the Thecus N12000Pro, not N1200Pro. Sorry.

I forgot to tell that I want something rackmountable. The Synology RS3412RPxs would fit the bill. Thanks for bringing Synology to the table. Also, I specifically chose NAS with quad-core Xeon because the last thing I want is something anemic (like an Atom). The NAS will be used for several...

We make an extensive use of EC2 here, but I'm not the one who manage the instances. I have an admin access to the account and I can look into it. One thing to note is that I always bitch about the small fortune it cost us. EC2 can end up being quite expensive if you don't take advantage of...

All the large-format printers I see are ink-jet. CNet has a wide selection on their site.

I'm looking at NAS for our server network. While HP has really nice options, they are prohibitively expensive, so I'm looking elsewhere. So far, I hesitate between the Thecus N1200Pro with an Intel X520-DA2 dual-port 10GbE NIC and a QNAP TS-EC1279U-RP. The later cost around 500$ more for...

The best advice I could give would be to contact a radon specialist at 1-800-55-radon or simply to e-mail them : Radon@ksu.edu. No one here will be as knowledgeable about radon than the folks answering to the National Radon Hotline. Except perhaps Adcadet, but AFAIK (not much), he's a lab rat...

No, it's enabled. The only way I'll fix this entirely will be by burning a BIOS that won't end up being corrupted like the last two times I did it on that system. I'll work on this later.

I did that, but it didn't change much. The TPF was already down to ~50 minutes. The unit should take approximately 3 days to complete. I know something is probably wrong, but I'll let it go like this anyway. That system is flaky since I first updated the BIOS (and I re-updated it afterward...

I...I really don't follow here.

How do I do that on the new client 7.3.6? I knew how to modify this on the console client, but I've not been following much the options on the GUI interface. I suppose i have to modify the CPU slot, but with what line? "client-type" "SMP:6"?

I see no good news in there for us as we all have Nvidia GPUs and the new FAHcore 17 won't help us at all. it looks like we won't see the bonus we had last Fall when GPU folding. I guess 60K ppd per GPU was too good to last. BTW, is projet 7645 that huge or is my X5570 simply aweful? I get...

I've trained them well.

I think I've found a way to restart my contribution on the Xeon X5570 system. It still isn't working ok, but as long as I don't need to restart it, it is stable enough to run the client. I hope it will help me to keep the pace with Mark and maybe eat some of his lead too. Handruin, are the...

I've had to pause the contribution of my most productive system last night. After a BIOS flash, it no longer boot in Windows. I'm running tests on it now. I hope it'll be back online before the end of the day. Sorry in advance for the dismal numbers I'll post today.

I think the name you were looking for is "Broadwell", the successor of Haswell which will also be sold for the LGA1150 platform. I don't know for sure, but I don't think there are enough pins in the LGA 1150 for a 6-to-8 cores processor. Broadwell should also be a quad-core max processor.

The Haswell architecture will most probably find its way to 6-8 cores processors at one point in the future, but I don't know when. It won't be soon. Certainly not before the very end of 2014 or early-to-mid 2015.

I thought Roswell was alien technology. It must be quite advanced indeed.

The oath : "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws...

News source The big lines are : * Haswell-based Xeon E3 12xx v3 for LGA1150 single-socket systems to be release at the end of May 2013. * Ivy-Bridge-EP Xeon E5-26xx v2 for dual-socket LGA2011 systems will get out in the third quarter of 2013. * Ivy-Bridge-EP Xeon E5-46xx v2 for quad-socket...

So your wife is a religious zealot?

The core-business of the fictional company described in the fictional situation above has absolutely nothing to do with the technology that would be fictionaly advertised in the very real NAB Show. So displaying the fictional technology wouldn't help to sell the fictional company, only the...

Fusion iO introduced Ddrueding's upcoming desktop drive : 9.6 million i/o per second out of a single drive.

You said that you had ~600 devices? And they can all broadcast all over the network? There's a reason to follow best practices. Maybe you can try this application?

A network storm would be my guess too. Are you sure your main switches have a sufficient switching capacity for your traffic? Maybe you haven't segmented your network enough through the use of VLAN? I'm curious to read what will be Chewy's view on this.

I'm looking for your opinions on a completely fictional situation : Would it make sense, for a company with a 2 million dollars annual revenue and books severely in the red, to plan to reserve a last minute booth at the NAB Show at Las Vegas in order to display and try to sell a product that's...