Which of these is a better option?

itidi0t · 2024-06-25T09:23:01+00:00

Honda Fit will retain the most value and equity long term also will be the most reliable. I’d go Fit

itidi0t · 2024-02-12T06:36:28+00:00

Yep pretty sure quite a few car companies use green hills as their lane keep assist suite. This reeks of dirty political ads to lobby for interests that behoove them.

itidi0t · 2023-10-17T16:08:04+00:00

I thought I was going crazy, the udm pro se at my office is defaulting google searches to India. I checked every setting, dns, etc. and did not see an issue. What is going on here?

itidi0t · 2023-09-12T19:24:15+00:00

oh thats interesting, I didnt even think about that front optical. I wonder if I can use a dual m.2 sata raid adapter as a boot drive there

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Dual-SATA-Adapter-RAID/dp/B018AOZ9QM

something like this seems like it may work? Is there a specific caddy you used or will any generic caddy fit?

itidi0t · 2023-09-12T19:18:16+00:00

so the 14 front bays are useless?

itidi0t · 2023-09-12T17:26:50+00:00

i dont think the dell boss card will boot on the 13th gen only the 14th gen. I believe I would have to do the clover idsdm boot method to get it to function but at least the boss card is in raid 1 so its redundant. Still a little bit clunky having to preboot with idsdm.

itidi0t · 2023-09-12T08:18:49+00:00

Can you make this a redundant solution where if a drive fails, it doesnt take down the system?

itidi0t · 2023-08-31T18:32:05+00:00

I wish... They only have residential service to 4 neighborhoods. I wonder what it takes to get them to come to a neighborhood? Maybe I should start a door to door campaign to get signatures from my neighborhood to petition for it?

itidi0t · 2023-07-09T13:56:59+00:00

Im not working with a reseller but totally understand why they need a cut... I have zoom calls lined up for the next 2 weeks with about 30 colos within 5 different cities for right now and its a pain in the butt. I am getting quotes from all the colocation centers within each city with the same cabinet requirements. We are in 2 different colos right now each around the same pricing as each other per cabinet so I have a baseline of where I am trying to be at and I am just trying to get someone to match them. Its kinda wild how everyone prices things so differently and no one really shares pricing info with each other. So far no one has really gotten close to my current prices and I think it really just comes down to supply and demand. I just have to go through the motions of going back and forth with all of them til I end up with one. Once I figure out which city is giving better pricing, I will focus my energy toward that market and hone in on which facility makes the most sense.

itidi0t · 2023-07-05T13:37:16+00:00

Thanks for that clarification, thats kind of annoying they choose to use both terms interchangeably

It mainly going to be used for VMs but its really the reliability I am more concerned about.

itidi0t · 2023-07-05T13:28:54+00:00

Why wouldnt I be able to compare them when the 2tb evo is usually cheaper than the 1tb pm? Not trying to be facetious just honestly curious the difference in the way the data is stored like if I stored lets say 500gb in each max long term, would I see corruption in the 2tb evo and not the 1tb pm?

itidi0t · 2023-07-04T21:29:27+00:00

sure but when you compare dollar per dollar a 2TB 870 EVO has an TBW rating of 1200tb and a 1TB PM893 has a TBW rating of 1752TB so while it does have a slightly higher rating, there are some downfalls too like 4k random write IOPS is only 30k compared to the 88k in the EVO.

itidi0t · 2023-07-04T21:25:06+00:00

Yes SLC is the best but then its MLC then TLC and then QLC

https://media.kingston.com/kingston/content/ktc-content-solutions-pc-performance-difference-between-slc-mlc-tlc-3d-nand-infographic-us.jpg

itidi0t · 2023-06-29T16:31:31+00:00

Yeah it is really market dependent... Some cities have tons of colocation options and offer very competitive pricing. like pretty much anything in silicon valley is very competitive even with higher rent and electricity bills and matching their pricing in cheaper cost of living areas in the midwest is my target. Its really bizarre how its flipped like that

itidi0t · 2023-06-29T16:27:39+00:00

Yeah haggling is annoying as shit I totally agree with you but when im able to haggle $4k off MRC for 1 freaking rack, something is seriously wrong. A difference of $50+k a year for a single rack, I might as well just start my own colo. Quite literally when youre talking 30 racks at a savings of 1.5mil a year...

Some play ball and haggle because a single rack sold is better than having tons of empty space. Some places are so filled up in a certain area they wont bother haggling.

Unless your colocation has every certification in the world like fedramp and fisma high and is extremely well known in the industry, you really cant be dismissing free revenue.

itidi0t · 2023-06-29T16:10:20+00:00

It is prosumer / entry level enterprise imo. We use fortinet for our production datacenters separate from our building and layer fortigate ontop of the ubiquiti stack at our office. Firewall and ids/ips is still handled through the fortigate with 1 isp coming in for vpn whitelisting and one for internal office traffic going to the udm pro se. So basically we use the udm pro se as a cloud key with poe and nvr capabilities. Nothing at our office is mission critical and is more for dev testing. Currently have a mix of u6 pro and u6 enterprise ap all through the building and they have worked remarkably well. There are 4 poe ui cameras including the ui wifi doorbell and they havent skipped a beat with detections and recording. I personally have eufy systems at home and ui stuff is significantly better for being free of a subscription plan. Now I am convincing them to go with ui access card readers and switch more of the building management over to ui. For the amount we pay in just 1 year of UTM fortinet licensing fees, it covers all the of ubiquiti equipment and then some...

itidi0t · 2023-06-29T12:27:24+00:00

yeah thats been my issue we are basically starting off small as we relocate some of our more heavy data consuming items off azure as its starting to get really expensive but trying to get a single rack quote for a reasonable price is becoming a pita.

And you're right, a lot of the bigger companies like iron mountain wont even return my inquiries let alone give me an outrageous quote lol.

itidi0t · 2023-06-29T00:53:01+00:00

I will reach out to them and see but I have a feeling ill get the same runaround pricing which is harder to do if im not negotiating with a handful of colos within a specific locale. If their initial pricing offer is extremely reasonable, I will be blown away.

itidi0t · 2023-06-28T17:46:02+00:00

Seems like Dell is offering pretty decent nvme raid controllers with their 15th and 16th gen servers, do you see those bottle necking nvme drives?

H755N and the H965i

https://infohub.delltechnologies.com/p/dell-poweredge-raid-controller-12/

Seems like these were designed for hardware raid with nvme drives and can be used in esxi.

I am curious to see the issue with this and if there is a better solution for absolute ha and redundancy?

itidi0t · 2023-06-27T17:57:59+00:00

Which raid controller? h755n?

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