5 SATA bays, hot swap, fits in 3 5.25" bays, dedicated fan that will pull 100% of it's air past your drives. Oh, and it comes in black, too.
And use a RAID controller that allows automatic rebuilds using a hot spare as well as online capacity expansion. I've had good luck with Raidcore/Broadcom controllers. For 500GB, use RAID-5 with three drives, hot spare in the 4th bay, and room to add another in the future.
As far as cost - auto racers have a saying: "$50 helmet for a $50 head" - what's your data worth?
Just think, only a few more tens of millions spent on legal wrangling and ROTS could have grossed upward of $380.001 million!
Of course, I'm sure that all these rabid Star Wars enthusiasts were quite content to sit in a desk chair watching this epic sci fi movie in degraded compression on a computer monitor. I'm sure none of them went to a theater the next day....
From TFA: However, he said that if he were younger he would have no concern about flying on the shuttle.
So is it that younger people are more able to survive re-entry without a capable craft? Or does he just recognize younger people as less valuable to protect?
Maybe it's because he assumes younger people to be stupid enough to fly in a craft that's safe according to the older person making the above assumptions!
After numerous dealings with "Enterprise" software (read: $$$) 90% of the time I end up dealing wtih a reseller/parter/consultant/whatever who is just a $140/hr guy with a certificate who's just going to call support and/or lookup my problem on the website. And usually these guys fly in and start loading software on any server they happen to spot 'cause that's the way they did it in the class. And they have no knowledge of the difference between an app server, SQL server, or anything else. Nor do they know what thick or thin clients are nor can they tell me wheether I'm going to run into bandwidth, CPU, RAM, or disk limitations first.
Recently, I had these problems with a well-recommended "parter" selling us SAP Business One.
There's actually a lot of sense in porting SQL Server to other platforms. For one, SQL Server could take advantage of larger machines with more memory, I/O, and multiprocessing capability. At the same time, the portable engine could be linked into far more products, including XBOx games which need an embedded database for storage. (Hell, does anyone remember when BTrieve, now PervasiveSQL, used to be part of Netware's networking and routing stack?) As it is, they're giving Sybase a small amount of reason to live. If you check Sybase's marketing, you'll find that 90% of it is geared toward "convert your SQL Server database to Unix/Linux!"
Actually what would be smart about MS porting SQL to other platforms is gaining developer mindshare. Once an "other platform" developer had become accostomed to (or expert on) SQL, getting a job at an MS shop would be so bad, and then learing MS dev tools would just be one more little step.........
Partitioning makes sense if you can separate static and dynamic data
Actually, I don't care if the data changes much, I care if I have to access it at all. If you're loading a program that pushes some other data out of your working set and in the swap file, you're making the drive head go back and forth from the "static" program files to the "dynamic" swap file.
It doesn't really matter if it's read or write activy, if the drive head has to go there, your performance is going down the tubes.
I *never* partition my drives. System performance is severely limited by hard drive latency and you're insuring many loooong trips across the drive face. Even if you have ample RAM, there is always *some* swapping going on.
The best technique is to do the base install of the OS, install all patches, deactivate the swap file (thus deleting it), defrag the drive to pack all the OS files nice and tight, then create a swap file bigger than you'll ever need in the nice, clean contiguous space you've created through defrag.
Of course, nothing will beat a separate spindle for the swap file....
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They decided to name it "Buy" because "Popular Science" was already taken.
But what if those 80+ hour weeks are to pay off big time at some later date?
On a related note, anyone interested in buying 14,000+ shares of dvdexpress.com stock?
Or maybe the company will concentrate on ways to make the employee so miserable, he just quits. Problem solved.
Just a little thing they like to call "fix the glitch".
"Math on tape is hard to follow, so: Please Listen Carefully"
Think Indentiy Theif.
Think Misintification.
Think Speeling.
This is what you should put those drives in
5 SATA bays, hot swap, fits in 3 5.25" bays, dedicated fan that will pull 100% of it's air past your drives. Oh, and it comes in black, too.
And use a RAID controller that allows automatic rebuilds using a hot spare as well as online capacity expansion. I've had good luck with Raidcore/Broadcom controllers. For 500GB, use RAID-5 with three drives, hot spare in the 4th bay, and room to add another in the future.
As far as cost - auto racers have a saying: "$50 helmet for a $50 head" - what's your data worth?
there are so many brilliant physicists alive today
...we're running a beowulf cluster of brilliant physicists?
Imagine!
Just think, only a few more tens of millions spent on legal wrangling and ROTS could have grossed upward of $380.001 million!
Of course, I'm sure that all these rabid Star Wars enthusiasts were quite content to sit in a desk chair watching this epic sci fi movie in degraded compression on a computer monitor. I'm sure none of them went to a theater the next day....
Real estate is probably going to be cheap.
Real estate will probably be hard to locate!
Yes, much stricter license enforcement through such mechanisms as Product Activation and the Genuine Windows programs.
From TFA: However, he said that if he were younger he would have no concern about flying on the shuttle.
So is it that younger people are more able to survive re-entry without a capable craft? Or does he just recognize younger people as less valuable to protect?
Maybe it's because he assumes younger people to be stupid enough to fly in a craft that's safe according to the older person making the above assumptions!
Of course, it's because Windows is the operating system that allows a developer to sneak "features" into the OS.
Ask any malware writer!
"And now, young Jedi, witness the power of this fully operational web server!
Oops, wait, hang on, oh forget it...."
Spy on whom? Russian Martians?
Of course! They were from the Red Planet...
After numerous dealings with "Enterprise" software (read: $$$) 90% of the time I end up dealing wtih a reseller/parter/consultant/whatever who is just a $140/hr guy with a certificate who's just going to call support and/or lookup my problem on the website. And usually these guys fly in and start loading software on any server they happen to spot 'cause that's the way they did it in the class. And they have no knowledge of the difference between an app server, SQL server, or anything else. Nor do they know what thick or thin clients are nor can they tell me wheether I'm going to run into bandwidth, CPU, RAM, or disk limitations first. Recently, I had these problems with a well-recommended "parter" selling us SAP Business One.
Because the scale was created by the same idiot who programmed the snooze button on almost all digital alarm clocks.
Geez, just when I got all my viruses, worms, trojans, and malware running *perfectly* on my machine with no crashing, they're going to break it all.
Why go through the expense of a satellite for stereo imaging when all it takes is a simple click of a mouse?
No problem once PoTC* gets ratified.
* Power over Tesla Coil
Right there under that plume of smoke.
"I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, 'I drank what?'"
But with philosophers, you never know, really...
There's actually a lot of sense in porting SQL Server to other platforms. For one, SQL Server could take advantage of larger machines with more memory, I/O, and multiprocessing capability. At the same time, the portable engine could be linked into far more products, including XBOx games which need an embedded database for storage. (Hell, does anyone remember when BTrieve, now PervasiveSQL, used to be part of Netware's networking and routing stack?) As it is, they're giving Sybase a small amount of reason to live. If you check Sybase's marketing, you'll find that 90% of it is geared toward "convert your SQL Server database to Unix/Linux!"
Actually what would be smart about MS porting SQL to other platforms is gaining developer mindshare. Once an "other platform" developer had become accostomed to (or expert on) SQL, getting a job at an MS shop would be so bad, and then learing MS dev tools would just be one more little step.........
Partitioning makes sense if you can separate static and dynamic data
Actually, I don't care if the data changes much, I care if I have to access it at all. If you're loading a program that pushes some other data out of your working set and in the swap file, you're making the drive head go back and forth from the "static" program files to the "dynamic" swap file.
It doesn't really matter if it's read or write activy, if the drive head has to go there, your performance is going down the tubes.
I *never* partition my drives. System performance is severely limited by hard drive latency and you're insuring many loooong trips across the drive face. Even if you have ample RAM, there is always *some* swapping going on.
The best technique is to do the base install of the OS, install all patches, deactivate the swap file (thus deleting it), defrag the drive to pack all the OS files nice and tight, then create a swap file bigger than you'll ever need in the nice, clean contiguous space you've created through defrag.
Of course, nothing will beat a separate spindle for the swap file....