> I’ve toyed with the idea of upgrading processors, but for what? VMware Fusion 10 & 11 will NOT run on your E5520 (?) Nehalem CPU's, just as they do not on my X5570's. That's what prompted my push to putting in two X5690 Westmeres; if I have to do surgery anyway, I might as well put in the fastest ones. (Still pending.)
My Time Machine backups go to another 1,1 cheese grater that has a 2TB RAID in it. There are 10 machines (including itself) aimed at that RAID. The mirrored RAID has four 2TB slices, two of which are always offline/offsite, in rotation. All four are NEVER physically in the same place at the same time. It'd take something like an asteroid strike to get them all in the same disaster. In which case, I doubt I'd care. The cheese grater's drive sleds make quarterly RAID rotation nearly trivial. (Power down, swap one drive, power up. The RAID rebuild is automatic and currently takes about 8 hours.) 2TB is getting a little tight. But, I have to buy 4 identical drives at a pop, so I like to wait until I HAVE to upgrade, so that the prices have fallen as far as they will. The 2TB's have served for nearly six years already, and only now have I had to trim off some of the oldest backup sets. -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
