Watch Activity monitor for the offending app. Could be a virus scanner or other job like spotlight hogging up the disk.
You can look at the activity monitor to spot the offender!
Also upgrade to SSD. It will be well worth the $$$ to move to a 512gb SSD!
The noise inside the chassis tends to crap out PCI-E wifi devices. Plus the older ones would hang your whole system say when they overheat and crap themselves.
USB generally allows you to move 3-5 feet away from the case and do some aiming of the antenna's.
Nowadays with all the neighbors having 802.11N on 5ghz - it is quite crowded and the distance of being 1 floor is enough to lost signal integrity.
802.11AC doesn't necessarily give better performance, except in perfect conditions. And a crappy 802.11ac router could very well be outperformed by...
Try Rapidssl they are cheap! Single root cert's so no intermediate cert install necessary!
No the site will remember the cookies from the domain name, not the Certificate used
knock on wood, i've got 12 2TB HGST sata drives in raid-50 for heavy (full image) veeam backups nightly, plus system image (BESR) of 50+ desktops on the weekend. When the raid box is not writing, it is reading to Offsite backup. Been 3 years - zero drive failures or smart warnings so far!
I'd avoid raid-5 and avoid non-tler drives for raid-protection in general. The responsibility of raid-5 is too much when a cold/hard reset would cause a full-rescan of the raid with potential for dropping out of the raid during that lengthy process.
If the client has permission to mount and stat (Dir) and change files with their permisson, then a virus can taint those backups too!
Why the cloud isn't perfect for backups!
You can hack windows 8 to allow remoteapps using enterprise license. Windows 7 enterprise as well! google-fu is your friend!
This is not using RD gateway but a direct remote-app connection using RDP!
You'd need something with several nic ports - unless you have a switch that can handle vlan's. Might as well run dual-wan on DD-WRT and be done with it!
No it sounds like it is having trouble negotiating sas @6gbps!
It should run 6x4=24gbps to the sas expander then 6xExpanded-ports to the drives. oversubscribing bandwidth!
Might want to upgrade the sas expander firmware? what model #/rev is the SAS expander?
Well if the cable is truly not acceptable at 6gbps, it may not be suitable for 3gbps either! Perhaps you just have a bad cable!
You can use MEGACLI to query the controller for status on the raid and number of PHY errors which is wiring between the drives and controller.
I assume your...
I'd just setup another router as a client AP - or repeater. I've done this for an office it works great. Airport extreme extending Time Capsule! Solid and easy!
Raid-1 is what you want to use with ESXi - even if you have two raid-1 volumes! Raid-10 slows down latency due to large stripe sizes and waiting for all 4 drives to return on write.
You do not need a battery since you will be disabling the CACHE for read/write purposes. I'd skip the battery...
disable hibernation mode, which many folks don't use on Desktop's! We leave our pc's on 24x7 with active power management it doesn't cost that much more.
I bet there are ton of folks who forget about the hiberfil.sys !
960gb SSD crucial m550 is 439$ each
Seperate nas? You could buy a pair of used 10gbe dual port nic's for $100 each and directly wire them together to avoid a switch and get 10gbe*2 speed!
USB Stick for ESXi - I use SLC 2gb HP usb sticks - ESXi doesn't write anything buy configuration for the...
ECC memory when using > 8gb of ram is pretty important. End to End ECC protection is the difference between a desktop that crashes now and then, and a server that never crashes for years on end without rebooting!
Yes - you sure you want to go that route? Usually makes a mess unless you are building a specific image with the correct drivers already planned out!
For consumers, I'll stick with it's cleaner to do a full install when changing out chipsets!
Yeah it is amazing how far the mac pro can go! Plus if you can run ESXi you can use standard PC hardware like M5014 megaraid, and intel/Emulex 10gbe nic's since the drivers are built into ESXi!
I've got a bunch of L5639 cpu's - but haven't seen if the MAC PRO supports those! $50 each for...
Certain apps (photoshop?) will use paging file and fail to run without one! It is not a SWAPFILE per se but a paging file, which the o/s uses all of the time!
You can add another drive and move your paging file to the new drive if that would help! But if the drive goes away, windows will be in...
Changing a motherboard will invalidate the activation of windows 7/8 if it is a retail copy! (or OEM SLIC 2.1) - I missed that part.
best to do a fresh install if you are changing motherboard to get the drivers clean/straight!
4 red's in raid-10 will be miserable speed for VM's.
Perhaps you can get a simple megaraid controller like M5015 or M5014 and run two large SSD in raid-1 . check out servethehome.com for cheap deals on near-enterprise SSD and raid cards!
The difference in running two SSD in RAID-1 and 4xred...
You should leave virtual memory to automatic settings..
powercfg -h off
(disable suspend hiberfil.sys)
run disk cleanup as administrator and delete old service packs/prior updates
remove system restore points.
Spend $70 and get a 256gb ssd upgrade!
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