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  1. I could have worded it better. I should have said an open platform.
  2. Now that Apple and Google have gone down the path of totalitarianism, it’s time to move to a Linux phone. The question is... which one? Please review.
  3. Backup... Did you back up? Yes... it didn't restore.... WTF I would love to see an in-depth back software review. When I say in-depth I meant run actual incremental back up, system-wide and restore. Most backup software will not backup everything.... and of course that means it will not restore everything. AppData folder is a common one. Nothing seems to want to back it up or restore it and I have to wonder how many other folders will not backup or restore if you just backup your C Drive. Which software backs up over a network. Incremental on bluray disc....why not. Online backup.... LTO drives.... all of it.
  4. Thank you! I'll wait for the 3rd gen threadripper to come out..... maybe I'll be able to run one of those on this MB.
  5. I'm considering upgrading my 1950x Threadripper CPU (16/32) to a 2990WX (32/64) but I'm wondering if there will be any power issues with the motherboard, which is an ASUS Zenith Extreme (not the Alpha). thanks
  6. I'm not hating it because it's Apple. I've been an Apple fan boy for decades and have spend hundreds of thousands on their products.
  7. Imagine having 30 of these and needing to upgrade the ram. It's moronic.
  8. I just noticed that you have to disconnect everything from the back of the Mac Pro to open the case.
  9. Thank you for all the advise. Very helpful! I'll be backing up to LTO and bluray. I'll probably go with Unraid, but with FreeNas, let's say I have 10 x 10TB drives (2 parity) and tiered cache. If I want to add more 10TB drives that would not be possible or difficult?
  10. I totally agree and have no issue asking for help, which is why I'm here. That said, while I'm aware there are people who specialize in these sort of things, I do not know anyone....or of those that I know, they'd be more likely to come to me for advice. Which is why I'm here. While this is my first high speed file server build, I've built other servers in the past, email servers, simple stuff.
  11. In the past I've usually preferred one device per function. This is the first time I've considered a device to pull double duty, as a file server and as a Vienna Ensemble Server but the two are highly linked. The ebay solution definitely wouldn't work for VEP as 64GB of ram for each of the two virtualization would be needed. I'd prefer to have the ability to expand to 3-4 virtualization. Lost of ram is needed for VEP. So I'd either need separate VEP servers, or one huge server with lots of cores and ram. I'd prefer an all in one solution because if I go with separate VEP servers it will eat away at the network throughput to workstations; i.e. The VEP server grabbing data via a virtual port in the same CPU then sending it to the workstation is preferred vs a separate VEP server(s) grabbing the data over the network, processing it then sending it to the workstations over the network. The other issue is noise. I need this to be quiet. Which is why I'm going with a custom build. The price range would be awesome but I need 5-6 TB of as fast as possible storage as a starting point with 40-50TB of storage that is accessible but not ultrafast to replace local SSDs, NVMEs and RAIDs for workstations.... Maybe I can plop in some SAS ssds as a cache....I'm not sure. I probably need a pro for this but I'm trying to do it on my own. Thoughts?
  12. Thank you for your feedback. What is your experience with FreeNas? For some reason I was under the impression that setting up unraid would be relativity easy but perhaps I am mistaken. I loosely looked into FreeNas but was a little confused by their hardware product line vs build your own solutions, i.e. does it work well for cached storage on build-in NVME, sata ssds and HDD or do I have to use their pcie cards? Ultimately all I really need out of this is a intelligent caching with expandable storage/archive. Currently each workstation has NVME and SSD for ready quick access to 5-6TB of data. The rest is stored in a RAID 6 NAS which is as slow as one could imagine. What I'd like to do is have a RAID, resistant to bit rot, that acts as one big cloud with the cache so that recently access files are transferred from the RAID to the cache with the bottleneck being the maximum speed of 10GBE. As video content increases with size, I'd likely want the ability to run multiple tiers of caching to be future proof for at least 5-6 years or more if possible. Thoughts?
  13. I've had several servers through out the years but I've always gone with dedicated file servers for backups and archives i.e. Drobo, QNAP, and Synology but I outgrow these system almost annually. So I've decided to build a custom rack server that I can manually expand as needed and use on projects instead of just slow access offline storage. I've decided to use Unraid for the file server and possible a virtualization of windows running Vienna Ensemble Pro for orchestral samples and a tiered file system with HDDs, SSD and NVME over 10gbe. Questions in logical order: Can a virtualization of windows take down an Unraid server? I'd assume there are protections for this and the virtualization might crash but it is sandboxed and won't take out Unraid? If that is true then I will have the system run both, otherwise I'll run VEP on a separate system. I'm assuming ECC ram is necessary for a fileserver, true? Should I avoid Ryzen for a Unraid server and if Ryzen works well will Unraid make use of ECC on AMD? If Ryzen is okay, has anyone had 4x32gb UDIMMs work with a Ryzen MB? If not, I'll consider a Threadripper so I can have 8x16gb RAM of ECC UDIMM. If Ryzen/Threadripper are bad ideas or if ECC is not going to work with Unraid, I'll do a Xeon server. What file system works best for workstation tiered performance? btrfs, ,xfs, zfs, ext4 something else? I'm assuming btrfs because of the cache drives I'd be using but maybe I'm misinformed. Am I out of my mind and should continue using local NVME storage for the workstations archived and backed up to a pre-built file server and leave the pro-IT to the pros? All typographical errors ™ 2018
  14. Any experience any pros or cons with installing the Asus AI Suite 3? Thus far I've installed chipset drivers and bios updates manually...but I'm new to Asus and wonder if I should install this. thx!
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