So... what do I have running? Well first off, I have a SonicWall CDP 110 unit running in the crawl space. This is a backup-to-disk solution. Agents on all the local pc's back up files as they change. I keep about 15 revisions of everything. All this data is then replicated late at night to an offsite unit I have.
The main storage system is an unRaid solution. As per Looney's storage post, I originally had one unit running about 40TB of space. I recently split that up. In the house I have a unit
So, now that you know a bit about the underlying makeup of the network in the house. In this Blog I will talk a bit about all the other systems.
Each of the kids have a gaming class rig. My oldest saved up money for a while, and with some parts from dad is running a pretty sweet build. Corsair 540 with all the fans bitfenix spectre with the gold LED's. Asus Z87 pro board, 16GB ram, 4670k, plextar m5 256GB SSD boot, couple of 1TB for storage, and a massive phanteks cooler. Gold one with bitfenix
Recently I commented on a topic involving website design and it inspired me to write this blog post. When I say recently, I should say it was about 10 minutes before I began writing this. It's a topic that I'm quite passionate about. From the positioning of content based on where a person's eye is most likely to land first, to the flow of that same content based on the most natural direction for that person to move their eyes, and down to the aesthetic of the design; I love every part of the pro
Nowadays, one in every of many hottest MMORPG is World of Warcraft. As a player, you must understand that getting gold is crucial for your character to achieve perfection. to induce harder and to level up quicker, you may be able to get the items that the character needs by exploitation gold.
Gold will even be used to get totally different desires, a bit like to induce coaching the character and also to induce learning several talents that may easily be used for combating mobs and completing qu
In terms of raw performance, you can pick up some older dual-socket CPUs that'll beat out modern quad cores at the same price point (though they'll use more power).
The build will probably be a ZFS storage box at first, and if I upgrade later on I might use it to host virtual machines or as a computing node or something.
Specs:
Intel x5650 @2.66 GHz (x2) - Each one consumer about the same amount of power as a 4670K and has the same raw performance (though much less performance per clock)
So it's been a while since I last updated the blog and over the course of a week many things have occurred. For one I now know I have indefinently lost my father to the control of my step mother and her tricks. Now he is just completely blind.
On the plus side, it seems I have received an extra 100 USD, which comes to total of approx. 450USD.
Once again our favorite game to be patched has got some news. This is for Naval Strike launched today. So here are my thoughts about some selected fixes and changes. You can find full list here.
GENERAL FIXES
Funny and sometimes annoying. Nothing major but sure helps cleaning roofs on Flood Zone.
These are bit more important. Before you had to aim to some jump with jet in order to get it into air before trees. I don't have ECM on any vehicle atm but that sounds important fix.
“NETCODE”
Ah
quite an odd thing for deadmau5 to put out considering there is nothing reminicent of the standard house/electro house fare we have known from him, instead he has published this more experimental, ambiance style of music, Which I have been listening a lot of and I personally think it's great, quite relaxing
Here are the product sheets for the enterprise/NAS drives I was able to find:
Western Digital
XE Series: < 10 in 1017
RE Series: < 10 in 1016
SE Series: < 10 in 1015
Red Series: < 1 in 1014
Seagate
Enterprise 10K: < 1 in 1016
Constellation ES: < 1 in 1015
Constellation ES.3: < 1 in 1015
Constellation CS: < 1 in 1014
NAS HDD: < 1 in 1014
HGST
Ultrastar 7K4000: < 1 in 1015
A lower BER means less of a chance of having a RAID require a rebuild due to an un
Hi guys.
Well, life is changing (kinda). I have multiple job opportunities to strive for before me. Here they are:
On my LinkedIn page (which my current employer requires we all have for business relations reasons), another IT firm/thing has sent me a message about being interested in hiring me. While this sounds cool, I've never heard of them. They are a little over an hour away, and I know nothing about any of that (their location, the people there, etc.)
However, they have it on their
here's an awesome website which collected all the free songs, EP's, and Albums that Aleksander Vinter has put out to the public.
http://savantfans.com/
enjoy, made my 'Savant' folder nearly 5GB :D
In traditional RAID setups, the data is spread out across all drives in the RAID array. If you were running RAID 5 with six drives, for example you would have five drives worth of storage space, with the missing space being for parity data. If you lose one drive, you haven't yet lost all your data. Throw in a new drive, and rebuild your RAID array (and pray you don't run into an unrecoverable read error or silent corruption, because then you can kiss your data good-bye).
This has obvious advant
Every good system boils down to the network. This is the underlying foundation for your entire setup. If this isn't rock solid and supports everything you need to do, it doesn't matter how fast that rig of yours is, you will still lag as your switch drops packets due to a network flood.
Most people seem to think when they need one, the thirty dollar switch is just a good as the fifty dollar one. Most cases they are correct, when you only have a few connections not
So, many people have asked about the Whale's Place - what hardware, how many PC's, where does it all come from... In this section I will work to describe my various systems builds (or link to my builds already on the forum), upcoming plans, my network layout, etc... I tell you, running CAT6 in coral is a pain in the butt...
To generalize, I have a enterprise grade firewall, three redundant GB switches, high end wireless N and some powerline gear running as the cor
