Why is there always Geek Talk at 2am! #0.6x5 (Enter at your own risk!)

*sigh* wrote in post #11961856
Don't go Drobo, extremely expensive and realy not all that great.

They use their own proprietary raid that just isn't great.

Sans Digital makes some nice external enclosures (never used one of their NAS's, but I've used several of their other enclosures), there are a lot of good NAS enclosures if you look around places like newegg though.

Interesting let me look into Sans Digital.

Cooling, backup, RAID, graphics interface, I am not missing this discussion these were topics over lunch at work...so here is my 2 cents-
Air cooling except for the really hot processors is still okay, even for majority of large servers they still rely on air cool, but now they have refrigerated modules with pipings to cool the inflow air per rack. Others relocate the racks to group highly utilized servers with those low densities or utilizations.
Make sure you do regular back up, many are already relying on cloud services buying backups services for example in my case if I wanted from smugmug, I backup in external Gdrives. Now if your data are critical rotate your back ups keeping one in another location, say at work to backup your home files. I also back up in CD some family photos, use korai, smugmug and photo bucket to store too.
RAID redundant array of inexpensive disk, was a way to ensure high availability of not loosing data before you backup, the other way is to mirror your files in expensive drives, many large mainframe users have GDPS, globally disperse parallel processing, so two or more of systems say in NY, Bethesda, Colorado and Seattle will be running hot with data mirroring and instant recovery ready to take over when one fails. Do we need this at home?
Outboard processors like graphics are important and can boost performance and worth every penny.

tonyniev wrote in post #11961929
RAID redundant array of inexpensive disk, was a way to ensure high availability of not loosing data before you backup, the other way is to mirror your files in expensive drives, many large mainframe users have GDPS, globally disperse parallel processing, so two or more of systems say in NY, Bethesda, Colorado and Seattle will be running hot with data mirroring and instant recovery ready to take over when one fails. Do we need this at home?

Do we need it? Of course not, but it would be awesome.

OMG! The Thread title... O_O

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11959331
who changed our front page title ?

monk3y wrote in post #11959348
yeah who changed it? that's unauthorized... I demand a lawyer!! errrr... what?

KenjiS wrote in post #11959382
I was gonna ask that

jdizzle wrote in post #11959383
ROFL! I didn't notice that. TF maybe?

It's my fault. Sorry guys!

krepta wrote in post #11959308
We should post a "Enter at your own risk" warning for the thread.

I guess the TTF (Thread Title Fairy) was hovering around.

jdizzle wrote in post #11959410
Yeah...all this geek talk is getting on my nerds.

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11959508
here's another pic that just popped up, my gf not my boss Steven

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Nice shot Martin. Great lighting.

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11959518
i respect mine too Steven, i pay cash for my stuff so she doesn't see the credit card statements

You are a smart man!

vipergts831 wrote in post #11960569
I left the door open while I recorded a video of the book made for mayra and had two people walk by and look at me while I was doing. Yeah pretty much got the "what the hell are you doing look"

I was wondering if that had happened to you, lol. Make sure to close the door next time and pretend you're on a important conference call.

vipergts831 wrote in post #11960569
I've seen people use those cups for everything and haven't heard of any melting problems.

Cool, I will let Panda know to try it with his.

Alex i thought about that after i got the look. Not used to having a door yet

krepta wrote in post #11962000
Nice shot Martin. Great lighting.

thanks Alex, there wasn't any processing done to it , i almost didn't put it up

vipergts831 wrote in post #11962024
Alex i thought about that after i got the look. Not used to having a door yet

It feels weird having your own space for the first time, right? But use it to your advantage, man!

FJ LOVE wrote in post #11962028
thanks Alex, there wasn't any processing done to it , i almost didn't put it up

That means you got it right the moment you took the shot! In general, I like the idea of less is better when speaking of post processing, although I don't take it as a rule. It works for this one.

^^ Nice shot of the GF Martin, very pretty woman.

Food photo, took a snapshot of our lunch today: home cooked fried rice, shrimp and vegetable tempura including okra, and beef sukiyaki:

Here is my first attempt at using my kenko tube. ITS TOUGH! Also first image edited on the mac after getting everything transferred and hooked up.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/prodigy83/55006​18746/

tonyniev wrote in post #11962106
Food photo, took a snapshot of our lunch today: home cooked fried rice, shrimp and vegetable tempura including okra, and beef sukiyaki:

Tony, your home cooked meals always look so inviting and delicious!

vipergts831 wrote in post #11962112
Here is my first attempt at using my kenko tube. ITS TOUGH! Also first image edited on the mac after getting everything transferred and hooked up.

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/prodigy83/55006​18746/
_MG_7767-Edit.jpg by Prodigy83, on Flickr

Burberry watch? Nice attemp. I suppose it takes some getting used to and fine tuning.

Well I've diagnosed the problem with the microwave. Blown fuse. Now to figure out where I can get a replacement. Not that I'd find anyone open on a Saturday night.

*sigh* wrote in post #11961496
Well... I'm back 8 pages later.

So I see Monk3y is doing a great job at convincing himself to spend even more money.

hahaha not quite...but yeah...

Jill-of-all-Trades wrote in post #11961537
He is good at that

what did you say? hahahaha

vipergts831 wrote in post #11961538
Cant hesitate Kenji! These things are in high demand!

its not because they are high demand products Omar... its more of Asus did not really most of its boards yet.. other brands have already released their boards in greater quantity.

*sigh* wrote in post #11961856
Don't go Drobo, extremely expensive and realy not all that great.

They use their own proprietary raid that just isn't great.

Sans Digital makes some nice external enclosures (never used one of their NAS's, but I've used several of their other enclosures), there are a lot of good NAS enclosures if you look around places like newegg though.

Omar, told you Drobo is too expensive. I vote for D-link NAS or QNAP

tonyniev wrote in post #11961929
Cooling, backup, RAID, graphics interface, I am not missing this discussion these were topics over lunch at work...so here is my 2 cents-
Air cooling except for the really hot processors is still okay, even for majority of large servers they still rely on air cool, but now they have refrigerated modules with pipings to cool the inflow air per rack. Others relocate the racks to group highly utilized servers with those low densities or utilizations.
Make sure you do regular back up, many are already relying on cloud services buying backups services for example in my case if I wanted from smugmug, I backup in external Gdrives. Now if your data are critical rotate your back ups keeping one in another location, say at work to backup your home files. I also back up in CD some family photos, use korai, smugmug and photo bucket to store too.
RAID redundant array of inexpensive disk, was a way to ensure high availability of not loosing data before you backup, the other way is to mirror your files in expensive drives, many large mainframe users have GDPS, globally disperse parallel processing, so two or more of systems say in NY, Bethesda, Colorado and Seattle will be running hot with data mirroring and instant recovery ready to take over when one fails. Do we need this at home?
Outboard processors like graphics are important and can boost performance and worth every penny.

for now Tony, I am looking at a close loop liquid cooling system suggested by Kenji.. Corsair H50 I am thoroughly convinced that's what I need

as for your question... "Do we need this at home?" we always want everything to exceed what we need hehehe....