Recent content by Emulex

I'd just stick with pure SSD. DOn't bother with fusion drive. SSD's are so cheap nowadays you can afford to go all SSD.

Watch Activity monitor for the offending app. Could be a virus scanner or other job like spotlight hogging up the disk. You can look at the activity monitor to spot the offender! Also upgrade to SSD. It will be well worth the $$$ to move to a 512gb SSD!

Trendnet is generally thought of as a junk brand!

The noise inside the chassis tends to crap out PCI-E wifi devices. Plus the older ones would hang your whole system say when they overheat and crap themselves. USB generally allows you to move 3-5 feet away from the case and do some aiming of the antenna's.

Nowadays with all the neighbors having 802.11N on 5ghz - it is quite crowded and the distance of being 1 floor is enough to lost signal integrity. 802.11AC doesn't necessarily give better performance, except in perfect conditions. And a crappy 802.11ac router could very well be outperformed by...

Try Rapidssl they are cheap! Single root cert's so no intermediate cert install necessary! No the site will remember the cookies from the domain name, not the Certificate used

Also ZFS usually means networked file sharing. Hardware raid can be local DAS which is far faster!

I'd avoid using non-tler drives in raid-10. Also the slowest drive will probably lag out the other drives when writing across all 4 drives!

knock on wood, i've got 12 2TB HGST sata drives in raid-50 for heavy (full image) veeam backups nightly, plus system image (BESR) of 50+ desktops on the weekend. When the raid box is not writing, it is reading to Offsite backup. Been 3 years - zero drive failures or smart warnings so far!

I'd avoid raid-5 and avoid non-tler drives for raid-protection in general. The responsibility of raid-5 is too much when a cold/hard reset would cause a full-rescan of the raid with potential for dropping out of the raid during that lengthy process.

If the client has permission to mount and stat (Dir) and change files with their permisson, then a virus can taint those backups too! Why the cloud isn't perfect for backups!

Intel 730 would be a great drive to pick up now!

why not just run some cat5 to your other house? seems easier!

You can hack windows 8 to allow remoteapps using enterprise license. Windows 7 enterprise as well! google-fu is your friend! This is not using RD gateway but a direct remote-app connection using RDP!

You'd need something with several nic ports - unless you have a switch that can handle vlan's. Might as well run dual-wan on DD-WRT and be done with it!