March 8th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

Xsigo Virtual I/O Blog.

One thing that holds virtualization back has been for each vm you needed a network cable.  Xsigo makes it two per server..period.  Nice.

March 8th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

- Newegg Sticks with “demo boxes” – Intel Counters | [H]ard|OCP.

Continuing on the earlier story which has really exploded Intel has come out and said these are total fakes.  Demos are units Intel sends to partners and vendors to try out and design things for.  These things are totlaly fake.

Intel is rightfully concerned about this.  My problem is how Newegg is handling this.  How they handle this incident is going to make it very easy for me to decide if I continue to do business with them or not.

March 8th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

Legal Action Threatened by Processor Distributor | Overclockers.

This company is now trying to sue to shut folks up.  Read the story I bet D&H is lying.  They say it’s slanderous or whatnot.  I bet they are getting ruffled because they got some fakes either by an inside job or whatever and got caught and now don’t want to face the consequences.  Let’s see if they are actually reacting out of..crap how did this get through…or are they doing the typical trying to bring in the lawyers for a gov’t grade coverup.  If it’s the latter they’re already toast.

February 10th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

Third-party drives not permitted on Gen 11 servers.

Dell in their newest RAID cards are actively blocking “non-Dell Certified” hard disks.  This means if you don’t use a “Dell Drive” the controller won’t allow it to operate.  considering hte markup on “Dell” drives can be nearly 200% this is sutpid.  There is a way around..don’t buy the Dell Hxxx series of controllers…at leaswt that will work until Dell makes the motherbaords do the same thing.

Also they have started doing something similar with Workstations to.  They are now using a proprietary daughtercard for dual socket systems.  this means you have to buy the dual cpus now..if you don’t you’ll be getting hammered for an even more ridiculous markup later(if they sell that particular cpu at all).

January 15th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

If this thing ever makes it to market I can see a HUUUUUUGE market for it.

YouTube – Puyocon – A ball-shaped controller you can squeeze, throw, and roll : DigInfo.

January 7th, 2010 by Hescominsoon

ZFS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I am going to look into this more.  This feature alone would allow storage admins to better utilize storage space.  Right now it’s only available on FreeBSD 8.0 and Solaris.  I may have to fire up a BSD VM on a dedicated drive set to learn how to utilize this technology.  Right now it’s CLI only..no gui(that i know of) to make things “easier”..:)

December 23rd, 2009 by Hescominsoon

AMD Does RAID On a Chip – www.enterprisestorageforum.com.

This thing is FRAID or software raid.  It’s no better than ICHx or any other chipset based “raid” system.   When you see somehting like this:

Dot Hill’s RAIDCore technology enables host-based RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50 directly on motherboard SATA I/O ports, and the same software stack with additional features enabled may also be used for SAS systems that use a built-in or PCIe host adapter-based SAS/SATA chipset.

Also a bit a googling reveals a small thread where I already researched this:

http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/centos@centos.org/1580168.html

The host based is what gives it away.  Anything that is host based puts the processing load on your cpu.  In the case of RAID 5 or 6 that load is high. Never turn this garbage on..use a real RAID controller.

December 1st, 2009 by Hescominsoon

Channelweb Connect: SMB Channel Voice: SMB Storage Challenges – Two Nice MS Utilities.

The Search Server Express is one thing i like.  It allows you to have your server index by content everything on your server including PDF’s.  This is one i am going to look into for all of my clients.

November 30th, 2009 by Hescominsoon

SemiAccurate :: Nvidia G310 spotted, just a renamed G210.

November 2nd, 2009 by Hescominsoon

I reccommended to my Mother in Law that a netbook would be perfect for her based on her needs.  It IS perfect except she is running out of room on the 8 gig SSD.  I went to find an upgrade for her SSD and found one by a company called Runcore.  Let’s jsut say 160 bucks later and 5 days of pain the SSd is not bootable…the mini simply refuses to detect the drive.  This is apparently a widespread issue which I jsut found out about.  Unfortunatly returns look like a 15% hit.  Lovely.

This is why when I recommend a product it’s only after it’s been out for a while.  I will not deviate from that again.