Recent content by kapone

There's a simple answer... There's more to life than STH. :) Get a hobby (other than STH).

I didn't realize we were trying to prevent State level actors from getting into your network. If that's the case, ESXi or pfSense is the least of your worries. My apologies, I was gonna write "managed switch" without the L3 part, but somehow ended up writing that. Probably because L3 routing at...

1. If I had to let any OS connect directly to the internet, ESXI would be one of the few I'll allow. It is hardened, secure, very low attack footprint, and by default, does almost nothing until you tell it to. 2. This is the kind of situation where a managed L3 switch comes in handy. You...

Your original post says "pfSense hardware". Are you doing "SSL/TLS inspection - decrypt/packet inspection/re-encrypt" with pfSense? p.s. The CPU in my $60 hardware is an i5-3570s, a 3.1GHz 4C/4T CPU. Way more than enough. I've yet to see it above 30% usage with a number of things (including 1gb...

Maybe I'm missing something... I can do any pfSense package you can think of with symmetric gigabit routing, and a tiny system at that, with < $60 worth of hardware. Is it fanless? Nope. So what? It (among other things in my rack) sits in a corner of my basement, away from anything else. Why...

What you should be looking for is...."What IS a raid card?" Sorry, no other way to say it.

Is Windows disabling the write cache on the 10TB drive, while Ubuntu is not?

But it shouldn't be this slow. And especially not for large files, which will be single threaded copying even in robocopy.

Is Windows Defender running by any chance?

Son...until you have dealt with the likes of Microsoft, Oracle or VMware licensing...you don't know what "licensing hell" is. :) That said, did you miss the big brocade switch thread?

Your SpeedStep is still enabled in the Virtualization column.

I have never had disk power management issues with Adaptec cards (7 series or newer) and I use a lot of them. There's some edge cases, where a disk firmware doesn't play well with the card, but it's rare. Keep in mind: - An Adaptec card will and can power down an entire array if you tell it to...

You'll be fine. It won't affect your array at all.

Nope. (Unless you're stacking...)

I'm unsubscribing from this thread... :p:p:p