Recent content by Duck

We'll have to agree to disagree on your first point, but I do agree with you that many storage vendors make the administration and operation of a system far more difficult than it needs to be. Quite honestly I've yet to see a workload that "requires" SSD or super fast controllers. SSD/SAS...

And I don't doubt that your story is entirely accurate, however I'm sure I could find a similar story for every vendor out there. We all have issues from time to time and we make changes to prevent those issues from ever happening again. Judging an entire company and an entire product line...

In reply to C0m0dor and FLECOM, I think your comments are based on what you've seen with the existing NetApp controllers and OS. This product is an entirely new hardware platform and an entirely new OS built from the ground up specifically for use with SSD Flash. While I agree that the proof...

Just to play devil's advocate, a lot of the software out there is in one way or another covered by export restrictions. Even though everyone knows the regulations do little if anything to stop the export of restricted technology the companies have to play the game and provide some sort of...

I see this question come up often and the question really shouldn't be does "does vendor A use hardware or software RAID?" the question should be "why do i care?" At the base level all RAID is software, the only difference is whether or not that software is embedded in a customized ASIC...

RAID-DP is now an approved type of RAID6, originally it wasn't as the specific method of doing dual parity was different than the original standard hence the DP moniker. NetApp has used it by default (and as the recommended best practice) for over three years now. RAID-4 is only still...

I reload on a Dillon 650 The original brass (that batch at least) is once fired Lake City I bought from a guy online for $85 So total cost for me to load the 1800 rounds done in that batch was about $360

or something, about 9 hours to load it all

Yeah I was aware of that, but was trying to avoid making it a long winded, pompous, self aggrandizing post and went for the short and sweet answer....

Hey it was worth a good laugh if nothing else If i could make that actually be 17000 rounds instead of 1700 I'd be a very happy guy

Even if I wanted to I couldn't. It's ammo I reloaded and in order to sell it I'd need to be an FFL

Care to recheck your work there?

yeah roughly Cost me a bit less though, reloaded it yesterday

this was the "before" shot

Yes, I should have taken pics of the result of trying to pick them back up