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    Advise for network security in new house

    Internet of things. I'd write more but the wikipedia entry would give a far better explanation that I ever could
    Post by: ecosse, Oct 19, 2019 at 5:54 AM in forum: Networking
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    recovery of files from network share

    Thanks and good shout but no, spinning rust - 6TB seagate USB drive of some description.
    Post by: ecosse, Oct 17, 2019 at 2:12 PM in forum: Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
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    recovery of files from network share

    Thanks for the advice everyone. Yeah I yanked it out quick. What I don't understand is from a technical viewpoint why deleting a file from a...
    Post by: ecosse, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:34 AM in forum: Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
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    recovery of files from network share

    Big of fat fingers. Deleted files from a network share - blew a way a couple of TB. Not the end of the world but any advice on how to get data...
    Thread by: ecosse, Oct 16, 2019 at 1:49 PM, 8 replies, in forum: Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
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    Pinning files to a performance tier of a ReFS formatted volume in Server 2019

    I've had bad experiences with REFS (two that I remember - once in windows 2012 (disk sizing on a few disks was weird and I couldn't fix it - had...
    Post by: ecosse, Oct 8, 2019 in forum: Windows Server, Hyper-V Virtualization
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    Happy Cray Day HPE Completes the Acquisition

    This is the same HPE who charges for their firmware "innovation" i.e. I doubt it.
    Post by: ecosse, Sep 27, 2019 in forum: STH Main Site Posts
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    Cisco Nexus N5K-C5020P-BF 40-Port 10Gb Switch $75

    Says password reset might be required - there appears to be recovery articles on the net fwiw Cisco Nexus N5K-C5020P-BF 40-Port 10Gb Switch w/ 2x...
    Thread by: ecosse, Sep 22, 2019, 4 replies, in forum: Great Deals
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    EU ebay: Supermicro X10SLE-F (Micro-Cloud node) usually under 10 Euro

    Got to say I love the dedication you are putting in to try to get these things to work. They'd be chucked into the deepest recesses of my garage...
    Post by: ecosse, Sep 22, 2019 in forum: Great Deals
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    Maybe I'm just getting old...

    And despite all the standards on interoperability that sh&t doesn't seem to work any better than it did 20 years ago. Wasted half a day trying to...
    Post by: ecosse, Aug 31, 2019 in forum: Linux Admins, Storage and Virtualization
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    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    This did the trick for me - thanks!
    Post by: ecosse, Aug 17, 2019 in forum: Hard Drives and Solid State Drives
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    What performance sacrificed by running VMware vSphere

    tbh if I was starting fresh with no impedance on existing technologies I'd look at containers first. VMware / Hyper-V is probably easier to get...
    Post by: ecosse, Aug 17, 2019 in forum: VMware, VirtualBox, Citrix
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    VSAN 2 Node Cluster

    Not at all - I use an HPE storvirtual VSA at the moment but I wanted something that does dedupe. I'm reticent to go down the starwind route...
    Post by: ecosse, Aug 10, 2019 in forum: VMware, VirtualBox, Citrix
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    VSAN 2 Node Cluster

    Thanks. I realise the "node" count errr count. I just want to reduce my electricity bill. The trouble with the 2 node cluster is unless tiny is...
    Post by: ecosse, Aug 9, 2019 in forum: VMware, VirtualBox, Citrix