It is. I wouldn't keep a cheese grater around for what I do, they're too big
and noisy.
I never liked the cheese grater case and in particular I loathed Apple's answer
to how to mount them in a 19" rack which involved a hacksaw on your $5,000
computer...
-Curt
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 9:15:09 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Sounds like you’ve got the “trash can”, not a cheesegrater.
-D
> On Mar 17, 2020, at 9:11 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> With all this talk I had to go check what I've got.
>
> Mine is apparently a 6,1. Quad core 3.7Ghz, 32GB of RAM. IIRC its only got a
> 256GB internal drive. I've got a 4TB external drive I move between it and my
> Macbook Pro for video editing.
>
> Mostly this machine gets used for watching Amazon prime and Youtube on the
> 26" monitor or 32" TV.
> Its super handy for video crunching though, way faster than the laptop.
>
> -Curt
>
> On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 5:12:00 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> > <mailto: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
> >
>
>
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