Windows 10

[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]

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.

[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.

[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

[Devils Horse]

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

Used to do that stuff, used IBM and Dell hardware. Hundreds of VM's, vCenter and plenty of toys. Also set up SANs (EMC, Brocade, Cisco).

Network Eng now. In South Carolina working on the problematic wireless infrastructure (Cisco, Motorola/Zebra) at one of our plants. In deep sh...uh weeds right at the moment.