Good point, but I don’t run VMware on my cheesegrater so it’s not an issue. The few VMs I run on occasion I’ll do on VirtualBox. Since swapping CPUs on these means taking them apart (de-lidding) I’ll stick with what I’ve got.
My 4,1/5,1 came with an Apple RAID card and four 800GB 15k iSCSI enterprise grade drives. It puked about a year after I got the machine, so I gutted it and went back to regular SATA drives. I like the belt and suspenders approach to backups, so I just recently snagged the 6TB drive to do a local TM backup which gets mirrored to my FreeNAS box with six 2TB hard drives hosting an 8TB ZFS volume. It’s in another physical location in the house, which is good enough for me. I also run separate backups of each physical drive in the cheesegrater weekly using SuperDuper. Those got to a separate partition on the 6TB internal drive and also get mirrored to the FreeNAS box in a separate partition in the ZFS volume. I see some people’s eyes glazing over as they read this, but I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to BACKUP YOUR DATA! I got burned many years ago and swore never again. Removable storage is cheap. -D > On Mar 17, 2020, at 3:03 PM, Jim Cathey <jim.cathey...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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
