Subj : Re: What to do with a gia To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Sun Aug 25 2019 20:15:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > KM> Yep, found those... and thinking it should have shipped with > KM> Windows ServerSomeyear, but unable to find the Windows Sticker, I > KM> contacted Dell support to ask where they hid it... nope, that one > KM> shipped naked, no OS, but I HAVE ENTERPRISE SUPPORT! > So you get personalized supoort paid for by whomever originally bought > the unit?! Neat!!! Yep, about another 200 days worth, so I'd better get it in gear. :D > And yes, I sort of figured you had found the information I did, just > sometimes I'll put the search terms in a different sequence or add or > leave out a phrase and find something unique. You never know, especially what with all the stupid custom results. No, Goo-duck, I want the exact thing I searched for, not what you think I wanted!!@*&^@@@##!! > KM> Anyway, once I figured out that if you boot from USB, it thinks > KM> your USB stick is C: and not USB-anything... should be able to > KM> install a fresh OS easily enough. Then the question is... what > KM> work shall it do? What would YOU do with 53 pounds of server? :) > > Interesting on the USB Boot. That is one way to do an installation with > 'regular' computers, though I'm still using DVDs. You're supposed to use the embedded management engine, which I haven't entirely figured out yet. I read the fine manual and was not enlightened. I watched a video and began to have a glimmer. Perhaps I'll experiment and hope nothing explodes. One of the SSDs will be used as the OS drive (it has two 2.5" internal drive bays for this very purpose). > Now for the "what would I do with 53 pounds of server?". And what was Boat anchor? :) > it, 3x 8 TB plus several 420 GB's (you were going to use the latter for > upgrading other computers). So that leaves either three 8 TB units in a > RAID or or 24 TB. I have a couple-pound server in the basement with 24TB straight up. Plus I'll probably hunt down some used SAS (cheaper than used SATA) HDs to fill the vacated bays. RAID is against my religion. Let me tell you the sordid tale (for the second time today, wtf) of how I lost faith: I was cured of RAID by a friend's experience with a failed array... when RAID loses its marbles, it garbles files in the most creative ways, such as each file contains striped sectors from each HD. And there's no good way to recover data from mangled linux filesystems, other than copy sector-by-sector then extract files from the resulting Single Giant File, based on known filetype headers, and hope the file was not fragmented. And the last intact backup was from =after= RAID went berserk, so was no help. What a mess. I spent six months rebuilding 14,000 irreplaceble JPGs from a vast heap of random data. Got to where I could hand-build JPG headers in my sleep, and ID which image a file fragment belonged to at a glance. (Some were in 3 or 4 pieces, and not in adjacent data chunks.) Good thing I think peering at files with a hex editor is normal. Were only about 60 that I couldn't recover at least part of, thanks to Frhed and JPEGsnoop. > only 5 TB and it is only half full. ...I don't know. If someone > offered, yes, I'd take it too -- same as you, grab now, figure out what > to do with it later. ...Obvious is 'storage', but one person has only > so much data to store. On the scattered PCs I have about 8-10 TB, not counting semi-random duplications, er, I mean backups of disks-in-use. > Renting/leasing storage to others is a > consideration, though then that kicks up all sort of business and legal > requirements for you which can be a pain. ....I don't know! Yeah, you get into legal liabilities there. Distributed computing would probably not be worth the power bill (apparently it doesn't use much idle, but can really cook when running full tilt). So I'm thinkin' backup server and maybe occasional media server... ....if I ripped all the DVDs, which I should for backup purposes anyway, it'd be... well, there go the rest of those TBs... http://www.the-sandpit.com/misc/dvdlist.htm Who buys all this crap? Worse, who watches all this crap? :) Junk fills the brain cells allotted. :D þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .