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There's probably some truth and some embellishment. People get wronged and when they try to right those wrongs they exaggerate the situation for a more desirable outcome. "Because my shipment was delayed I had to stay home and miss a funeral - how are you going to make this right?!" While true, it's likely they never wanted to go to the funeral in the first place. So keep that in mind when reading any complaint - it's probably true but there are also some things stretched out, left out, and misrepresented.
 
Assuming she really cut herself to get time off, it clearly demonstrates she has some deeper rooted issues. Having issues does NOT mean she's a liar, only that her perception of the world and its events are skewed. I think her biggest mistake in coming out, was that statement. It shows 1 - nobody at the office was going to give her shit for needing medical treatment (she said it was the only way to not get "told off" much like with Linus' assistant who had his wisdom teeth removed without any complaints). 2 - Shows that she's mentally unstable.. between the public opinion and very likely in a court of law, will be used against her. While I think if she's been wronged she should definitely speak out about it, I worry in her current mental state whether or not she can handle it. She would probably have a total meltdown if she read some of the shit in this thread. 
 
And that's what I mean by she could be telling the truth but not the whole truth. She's proven LMG would give you space and time for medical treatment but painted the picture black with self-harm and that the sick-time she did request prior was used against her. She didn't elaborate as what the "told off" meant but clearly she wasn't taking sick time for medical emergencies. It's easy to speculate and go down that rabbit hole - but clearly there's more to the story.
 
Before rushing to attack her or LMG, maybe wait for more information? Understand she's hurt and is trying to tell her story - even if she's not telling the whole story it's important to listen for the bits that may be accurate.

There's probably some truth and some embellishment. People get wronged and when they try to right those wrongs they exaggerate the situation for a more desirable outcome. "Because my shipment was delayed I had to stay home and miss a funeral - how are you going to make this right?!" While true, it's likely they never wanted to go to the funeral in the first place. So keep that in mind when reading any complaint - it's probably true but there are also some things stretched out, left out, and misrepresented.
 
Assuming she really cut herself to get time off, it clearly demonstrates she has some deeper rooted issues. Having issues does NOT mean she's a liar, only that her perception of the world and its events are skewed. I think her biggest mistake in coming out, was that statement. It shows 1 - nobody at the office was going to give her shit for needing medical treatment (she said it was the only way to not get "told off" much like with Linus' assistant who had his wisdom teeth removed without any complaints). 2 - Shows that she's mentally unstable.. between the public opinion and very likely in a court of law, will be used against her. While I think if she's been wronged she should definitely speak out about it, I worry in her current mental state whether or not she can handle it. She would probably have a total meltdown if she read some of the shit in this thread. 
 
And that's what I mean by she could be telling the truth but not the whole truth. She's proven LMG would give you space and time for medical treatment but painted the picture black with self-harm and that the sick-time she did request prior was used against her. She didn't elaborate as what the "told off" meant but clearly she wasn't taking sick time for medical emergencies. It's easy to speculate and go down that rabbit hole - but clearly there's more to the story.
 
Before rushing to attack her or LMG, maybe wait for more information? Understand she's hurt and is trying to tell her story - even if she's not telling the whole story it's important to listen for the bits that may be accurate.

They can 🙂
 
Once you take the NetApp controller out of the equation they are just SAS disk enclosures with nothing special about them at all. Since SAS is compatible with SATA it just works but only the primary data path, no dual pathing and redundancy supported so in larger bay count enclosure you need to connect both data ports and half the disks will show on one cable and the other half on the other cable. Unless it's a much bigger enclosure with a SAS expander but then that's getting in to details most here don't need to be hit with unless they ask.
 
All you need to use these is a SAS card with external SAS ports and you're good to go.

@LinusTech @jakkuh_t You should have (just kidding) asked me since we're one of, maybe the biggest or was at one point, Netapp customers in my country.
 
FYI NetApp is not hardware RAID, that's wrong. NetApp is nearly identical to ZFS (to the point they had nerd fights with each other over who stole what). Those batteries are for the NVDIMM in the controllers. The controllers have NVDIMM as well as read cache cards (now NVMe SSDs for read cache).
 
The RAID Groups are "vdevs" and the RAID Groups (vdevs) are added to Aggregates which are the same as ZFS Pools. For simplicity sake you can literally think of and talk about NetApp as if it were ZFS and you'd be 80% or better correct.
 
All those JBODs are missing their second IOM module (SAS interface controller) which makes the JBOD fully redundant and you could lose up to 3 PSUs without loss of access to any disks in it (SAS disks only!).
 
Overall C- on the technical details 😅

Just a follow up - my amazon basics tool has failed (decided to keep it while waiting since it was so dirt cheap). I don't know what the rules are about posting links to videos so I'll avoid for now.. but basically while ratcheting lightly on a screw, the selector will move to the middle thus seizing itself. This happens no matter how you hold it, even with 3 fingers on the very far end of it.
 
I've only used it to replace outlets and such, maybe 80-100 screws total. While driving a screw in, you can hear this really sad whine (metal on metal squeal) and then it just seizes.
 
Currently trying out Amazon's "Trust me bro" warranty - they just asked me to return it and will issue me a refund, I'm roughly about 5 days outside of return policy.
 
So honestly while some may get lucky with cheaper ratcheting drivers, I was not and understand a little more why some do cost more. Also to note, my f'ing wrist hurts so much from using this damn thing.

I have to say, using a good ratcheting screwdriver is a literal gamechanger if you use a screwdriver a lot. But, you point out a lot of good points about the limitations that some brands have.
 
Most ratcheting screwdrivers will not be "loose" enough to keep ratcheting on a fairly loose screw - but most of them are also designed so that you can hold the shaft (not twisting the shaft with your fingers, just holding it into place) while you ratchet using your hand on the handle. Some are good enough that you can use your fingers to do the ratcheting, but usually you're just holding the shaft stationary and providing some resistance. Knurling is definitely a nice to have, but a well made one can still be operated in this way with a smooth shaft.
 
I've never used either - and I'm not familiar with the Klein brand - maybe they're just not common or available in Canada. I've used a few from some of the more common brands, and we have a Mastercraft set here at the office which works very well.

Since I'm impatient and wanted to play with a ratcheting screwdriver (never owned one, seemed gimmicky) I picked up two from Amazon: Klein's multibit and Amazon Basic's multibit (both ratcheting). I'll be returning both ultimately. Hopefully I'll get in on Wave 4 or 5 and have an update by next year :'(.
 
I've been doing projects around the house and have been alternating between the two to see what my likes / dislikes were... So in summary:
 
Klein:
Pros: Very good feeling in the hand (weight and size). Very little movement of the shaft. Double ended bits are nice so if you just need 1 size up/down it is just a matter of flipping it as you move between various screw sizes. Rubber grips were reassuring. The bearing on the bits kept the bits locked into the shaft (thus never stuck in a screw). Bit holder spins. The bits are properly sized (fits well into their respective screws). 
 
Cons: No knurling means turning the shaft with your fingers is useless. Ratcheting is very tight and only useful for initial unscrewing or breaking a screw loose - I found myself using it like a regular screw driver once the screw had no resistance. The bit compartment is incredibly locked in (maybe loosens over time?) and I often had to find something to pry it open. There are opposing finger indents that lead you believe you need to squeeze to release - does nothing. The selector is really rough / stiff.. Non-magnetic
 
Amazon Basics:
Pros: The bit compartment self ejects once you squeeze the tabs, knurling on the shaft. Selector feels good. Grip is.. ok. Bits never stuck to any screws.
 
Cons: Shaft is detachable (Why?), shaft clearly has a hole at the bottom to catch a ball bearing yet.. the input on the handle has no bearing, just a weak magnet and a prayer keeping it in. Shaft is horribly wobbly and adds to an already low-quality feeling. Every time I swap bits, I have to use a finger to hold the shaft as I remove the bit so the whole shaft doesn't come out. Bit size tolerance is a little loose. Ratcheting mechanism is inconsistent, sometimes it starts to seize up ever so slightly (easy to overcome but not a good feeling).
 
Closing thoughts..
The funny thing is, just because of 2 reasons (knurling and ratcheting) I find myself actually using the Amazon Basics more. I want to use the Klein but the overly tight ratchet and lack of knurling push me away. 
 
**Side note: In regards to Linus' deal breaking selector direction - you grab the selector and turn the handle in the direction you're screwing... is the thought manufactures had, I'm sure. This is more of how you use your tools / personal preference in the end though. I can see where if you want to change directions single-handedly using your finger and thumb, it would make sense to do it LTT's way.
 

They do not - you're just ignoring what everyone else is telling you and trying to fear monger.
 
Then why not do what all those same people do and configure it per device???
*snip*
 
Having been a Comcast customer, they do not block anything just like Shaw is not blocking anything. I was given a choice just like everyone else - rent their shit or buy my own.
 
You chose and are paying EXTRA for a product (the bluecurve @ an additional $7/m) and are not happy with it, and blaiming the service (shaw). That's $84/yr for hardware you do not like - whose fault is that?
 
 
 
Trying so hard to remain civil. I never thought I would be defending an ISP but I also can't stand misinformation. My only hope is that any other person who thinks this is a legitimate issue reads through the comments and understands it is not. The complaint in this thread is the equivelant of trying to ride a bike in a river and blaiming the river. 

Can you clarify what your actual question is? Any SAS HBA will work with this. If it's a straight backplane (no built-in expander) then you'll need to get an HBA with four mini-SAS connectors to fully connect all 24 drives. Or alternatively, two separate HBA's w/ 2 mini-SAS connectors each (these are more common and cheaper).
 
From reading through the user manual, it does appear to have a built-in expander.
https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/BPN-SAS2-846EL.pdf
Page 17
 
Assuming you have the EL1 version (not the EL2), you cannot run a dual connection to the expander, as that's an exclusive feature of the EL2 version.

Watch the recent video were they constantly crash the server running minecraft. You're gonna wanna VM. Or docker. I would start in the FreeNAS forum.

Beyond mainstream acceptance, what does Discord offer over mIRC? Just voice? With thousands of people is voice really relevant?

Do you have a model for this LACIE? I've only heard of their external drives, did not know they offer NAS solutions.

Ah I see, since you already have the QNAP then you might as well use it. It appears to have thunderbolt support so it ~should~ be plug and play. Those NASs typically run Linux which should should handle NTFS / EXT just fine assuming your LACIE is in one of those formats.
 
If you didn't have the QNAP I would just advise to use the ingest station as a NAS.
 
 

SSL protects the data in transit, not the server itself. 
Large portion of websites are hosted on apache, so I would read some hardening guides, separate it from the rest of your network, and go for it. There are probably a few scripts you can run that will walk through and secure apache.
 
If you use Nextcloud (fork of owncloud, better IMO) they have a hardened OVA you can import into ESXi. I believe their docker varient is also secured.
 
If your reverse proxy isn't secure but your apache server is, it almost defeats the purpose. Reverse proxies work great, just make sure you keep it + the apache server up to date.

You could do what linus did, and buy a thundbolt docking station and run it to the server over fiber. Then using microsoft multipoint server or whatever hypervisor you want, assign those IO devices to specific VMs.
 
RDP actually works quite well, are you having any specific issues with it?
 
Also if this is for a lab, you always have the option of VMUG to get a full license for Horizon.

^ This.
 
If graphics are really required, one of the niche use cases for VDI, there's also RemoteFX available. The main benefit to PCoIP is that it's picture perfect, and HDX and RemoteFX are not.

Agreed - though to explain why some people say it's not a good solution:
 
Most drives are rated with a specific MBF number (Mean time between failures), and larger HDD's are so large and take so long to rebuild an array, that statistically, you have a much higher chance of a second drive having some sort of failure during the rebuild than with older smaller drives.
 
How likely is that to be a real issue? None if you keep proper backups, and even so, odds are you likely won't have any issues still.
 
Personally I run a RAIDZ1 array, which is basically the same as RAID5 - with the added benefit of ZFS scrubbing the array periodically looking for errors or degraded SMART stats preemptively.
 
For home use, as long as important data is backed up, RAID5 is fine.

You could do what linus did, and buy a thundbolt docking station and run it to the server over fiber. Then using microsoft multipoint server or whatever hypervisor you want, assign those IO devices to specific VMs.
 
RDP actually works quite well, are you having any specific issues with it?
 
Also if this is for a lab, you always have the option of VMUG to get a full license for Horizon.

SSL protects the data in transit, not the server itself. 
Large portion of websites are hosted on apache, so I would read some hardening guides, separate it from the rest of your network, and go for it. There are probably a few scripts you can run that will walk through and secure apache.
 
If you use Nextcloud (fork of owncloud, better IMO) they have a hardened OVA you can import into ESXi. I believe their docker varient is also secured.
 
If your reverse proxy isn't secure but your apache server is, it almost defeats the purpose. Reverse proxies work great, just make sure you keep it + the apache server up to date.

I never got a clear understanding whether or not they run hypervisors at LMG. I think their only needs are storage (file shares) and rendering - so not much else.
 
They've shifted from one storage solution to another, though I'm not aware they ever used FreeNAS. Just GlusterFS for a short skinny and then unraid. Last I heard, they are overall just running unraid. He quickly moved away from GlusterFS once he had a node go down and required phone support to recover his data.
 
GlusterFS is a solution to spread out your storage for both redundancy and availability. You can slide the scale via configuration for which is more important. Any speed benefit is merely a side-effect and not the main objective (aside from storage being locally redundant). Think of it similar to a CDN.
 
FreeNAS is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI backed by ZFS. A lot of storage solutions are offering ZFS because of the data integrity it offers. FreeNAS is well received because it's easy to use, offers many protocols, and has been proven as rock-solid.
 
unRaid is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI with a focus on virtual machines. Their raid solution is built for fault tolerance while minimizing data loss at the cost of speed. It round-robins files between the disks, instead of writing a single file across many disks. Write speeds can be inflated when you're writing multiple files and the raid has multiple disks. Write speed can also be improved with a SSD buffer.
 
HyperV is a great solution if you just need VMs and not much ealse - free and point and click. Personally not a fan though.
ESXi is a great solution for a little more fine-tuning (especially networking) that can be done through the GUI. It also scales out very easily and quickly.
Proxmox is a mixture of the two in my opinion, lot of features but maybe you have to drop down to command line once in a while for certain things.
 
There is no cookie cutter answer for what solution works best for each field of work. Each business is unique in how they want to protect their data, meet customer needs, and lean on technology for certain capabilities. So in the end what you have is a box of legos in which you simply need to know which each piece does, and assemble your own castle.

oh I think I'm losing it, maybe it was the whonnock server I'm thinking of - I could've sword they had another server die that was running gluster and it was too hard for them to figure out (or maybe it was just the initial configuration)... 

I never got a clear understanding whether or not they run hypervisors at LMG. I think their only needs are storage (file shares) and rendering - so not much else.
 
They've shifted from one storage solution to another, though I'm not aware they ever used FreeNAS. Just GlusterFS for a short skinny and then unraid. Last I heard, they are overall just running unraid. He quickly moved away from GlusterFS once he had a node go down and required phone support to recover his data.
 
GlusterFS is a solution to spread out your storage for both redundancy and availability. You can slide the scale via configuration for which is more important. Any speed benefit is merely a side-effect and not the main objective (aside from storage being locally redundant). Think of it similar to a CDN.
 
FreeNAS is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI backed by ZFS. A lot of storage solutions are offering ZFS because of the data integrity it offers. FreeNAS is well received because it's easy to use, offers many protocols, and has been proven as rock-solid.
 
unRaid is a general all purpose storage solution with a GUI with a focus on virtual machines. Their raid solution is built for fault tolerance while minimizing data loss at the cost of speed. It round-robins files between the disks, instead of writing a single file across many disks. Write speeds can be inflated when you're writing multiple files and the raid has multiple disks. Write speed can also be improved with a SSD buffer.
 
HyperV is a great solution if you just need VMs and not much ealse - free and point and click. Personally not a fan though.
ESXi is a great solution for a little more fine-tuning (especially networking) that can be done through the GUI. It also scales out very easily and quickly.
Proxmox is a mixture of the two in my opinion, lot of features but maybe you have to drop down to command line once in a while for certain things.
 
There is no cookie cutter answer for what solution works best for each field of work. Each business is unique in how they want to protect their data, meet customer needs, and lean on technology for certain capabilities. So in the end what you have is a box of legos in which you simply need to know which each piece does, and assemble your own castle.

LMG/LTT != enterprise ?
 
Actually though if you are interesting in working in the IT field LMG is not what you want to use as an education source, use it for entertainment which it's really good for.
 
Windows Server is used because there is replication software they use that only works on Windows and Window Server does SMB shares better than Linux does, if you want 10Gb or higher throughput per single client and don't want to have to do many performance tweaks on Linux and have higher CPU overhead.
 
GlusterFS is far cheaper than any Windows option for long term archive, same for Ceph, Swift and FreeNAS/ZFS.

1. Don't worry about defrags. In terms of partitioning a RAID array itself, I wouldn't bother with "overprovisioning" (the practice if leaving some space unpartitioned).
2. I wouldn't worry too much about how close you get to full (say, keep it above 5%, but realistically, it won't really make a difference anyway)
3. Don't fill up your drive completely - this isn't due to performance reasons, but more so due to practical reasons. Plan ahead. If your drive capacity is getting under 10%, time to order a new drive, since you'll likely fill the drive up completely and run out of spare space soon enough anyway.

If you doing nextcloud and already have a hypervisor, why not just make a seprate vm for nextcloud and not run it in freenas?
 
This feels like a nginx config issue, can you change those config files?