Windows 10

[Moveon]

Have you updated your windows 7 or windows 8 Operating systems to windows 10 yet? I made the mistake and doing this and then found out that there's a problem with the windows 10 updates on my newest computer. I finally manually downloaded the new cumulative updates for Windows 10 and got it installed now. Hopefully this will fix the problem with the automatic updates.

[AaronS]

I'm going to wait. I have always like Win7 and will hate to leave it. On that same note I've always very much disliked Win8. I know of 2 people personally that updated to Win10 and the update didn't work, completely messing up their computer. I had to use recovery media to restore one of them to Win8.

[GeoFisher]

I'm going to wait. I have always like Win7 and will hate to leave it. On that same note I've always very much disliked Win8. I know of 2 people personally that updated to Win10 and the update didn't work, completely messing up their computer. I had to use recovery media to restore one of them to Win8.

Win 10 is really nice........pretty stable too.

I've been using it on all my boxes, but a word of caution. It changes the write method for certain write requests to Disk.

That change really, really JACKED up my hardware raid. I had issues with the drivers for Hardware RAID array what I assumed would work with the win 8.1 drivers on win 10........NOPE. I should have never done that. The hardware raid controller and the win 10 and the 8.1 driver all jacked up my data.

Good thing I'm ANAL about data backups and I keep backups to backups .

I recovered my raid 5 array from a backup and then applied the CORRECT v10 driver, and all has been good, but it was a pain in the ass.


Later,

Geo

[Dobe Mejuwa]

OMG....stop laughing. I'm still an XP guy. I do like 7. I think 10 was MS's way of saying they screwed up with 8.

[Devils Horse]

Win 10 is really nice........pretty stable too.

I've been using it on all my boxes, but a word of caution. It changes the write method for certain write requests to Disk.

That change really, really JACKED up my hardware raid. I had issues with the drivers for Hardware RAID array what I assumed would work with the win 8.1 drivers on win 10........NOPE. I should have never done that. The hardware raid controller and the win 10 and the 8.1 driver all jacked up my data.

Good thing I'm ANAL about data backups and I keep backups to backups .

I recovered my raid 5 array from a backup and then applied the CORRECT v10 driver, and all has been good, but it was a pain in the ass.


Later,

Geo

You run a Raid 5 nest on your home computer?

[GeoFisher]

You run a Raid 5 nest on your home computer?

Yes............Hardware Raid 5 And I have a spare raid 5 controller.........

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Yes............Hardware Raid 5 And I have a spare raid 5 controller.........

I use Raid too, but mainly in my garage. Never thought to try the pc to help keep "bugs" out.

[Devils Horse]

Yes............Hardware Raid 5 And I have a spare raid 5 controller.........

Next question. Just 3 spindles or a whole shelf of them?

Most obvious question. Why? If redundancy keeps you awake at night, why not just run 2 drives and RAID 0?

I'm guessing you bought a server class machine for home use. That officially makes you a geek, dude.

Next time I bother with the home PC, I'm going solid state HD like my work laptop has. Burning fast with no moving parts.

[Devils Horse]

OMG....stop laughing. I'm still an XP guy. I do like 7. I think 10 was MS's way of saying they screwed up with 8.

True. For the most part 8 is unloved. Still running 7 pro myself. I'll jump to 10 when the kinks get worked out and better driver support is in place.

Maybe.

[GeoFisher]

Next question. Just 3 spindles or a whole shelf of them?

Most obvious question. Why? If redundancy keeps you awake at night, why not just run 2 drives and RAID 0?

I'm guessing you bought a server class machine for home use. That officially makes you a geek, dude.

Next time I bother with the home PC, I'm going solid state HD like my work laptop has. Burning fast with no moving parts.

* I built my server class machine at home..........I use a LSI Hardware Raid Controller. I also have one of them as a backup controller, still in the box. It has updated bios, and drivers IN the box for Linux, Centos, Windows 7, 8, 10....Just in case.

* Hardware Raid 5 with 5 500gb solid state Samsung 840's.

* Hardware Raid 5 simply because it is FAST, and using HW controller, means if I lose the motherboard, I'm not losing the raid, and I can also dual boot linux or windows or windows 10, or bootable thumbdrive centos, etc, etc, etc, and still see the raid controller. REALLY important for me. .

* Backed up to Raid 0 on another box.

* I should tell you about my software raid 5 array of thumbdrives.....that was fun .

* Redundancy doesn't keep me up at night. But I know I will not lose stuff I've been keeping for 10-20 years. . Digital Pics, Videos, etc, etc.

Hey, I'm a DBA, I live and breathe backups .

Later,

geo

[Devils Horse]

* I built my server class machine at home..........I use a LSI Hardware Raid Controller. I also have one of them as a backup controller, still in the box. It has updated bios, and drivers IN the box for Linux, Centos, Windows 7, 8, 10....Just in case.

* Hardware Raid 5 with 5 500gb solid state Samsung 840's.

* Hardware Raid 5 simply because it is FAST, and using HW controller, means if I lose the motherboard, I'm not losing the raid, and I can also dual boot linux or windows or windows 10, or bootable thumbdrive centos, etc, etc, etc, and still see the raid controller. REALLY important for me. .

* Backed up to Raid 0 on another box.

* I should tell you about my software raid 5 array of thumbdrives.....that was fun .

* Redundancy doesn't keep me up at night. But I know I will not lose stuff I've been keeping for 10-20 years. . Digital Pics, Videos, etc, etc.

Hey, I'm a DBA, I live and breathe backups .

Later,

geo

Noice, very noice. Smart RAID controllers will very likely save your bacon, they've saved mine a few times in the past.

Just run vmWare ESX (open source version used to be free, prolly still is) and run all the machines at once. You got 2 TB of Raid 5 disk, and a server. Might need more memory unless you have a bunch. Snapshots, and all the other cool stuff make virtual machines the only way to go.

BTW, you can't help it if you're a DBA. Is Hindi your first language or English?

[GeoFisher]

Noice, very noice. Smart RAID controllers will very likely save your bacon, they've saved mine a few times in the past.

Just run vmWare ESX (open source version used to be free, prolly still is) and run all the machines at once. You got 2 TB of Raid 5 disk, and a server. Might need more memory unless you have a bunch. Snapshots, and all the other cool stuff make virtual machines the only way to go.

BTW, you can't help it if you're a DBA. Is Hindi your first language or English?

I have a bunch of VMWare in the shop at work. All on gigantic HP servers. And we stack them VM's high....really high

Later,

Geo