PotNoodleTech

7200RPM SATA then probably unless you want to spend big money on the enterprise SAS. I've used several makes, Western Digital, Seagate had a couple of faliures with them all.

For live server workloads I only use Intel SSDs. For backup I use a Mixture of 7200rpm "NAS" style drives. If you want 4TB SSDs the cost will be prohibitive.

Yes but outright refusing to help / fix it leaving their software broken??

Sounds like inventry have broken their contract then. Maybe hold the next payment which should focus their attention.

Apologies, my reply looks somewhat flippant I didn't mean it to be.

My 2p = an old saying: If it seems to good to be true it probably is. Photocopying companies are notorious for ripping off schools, particularly small schools that may not have onsite IT staff to advise. Be very careful if you buy off a company that is not using one of the government frameworks as it will be on you if you get stuck in a terrible contract - it's happened to thousands of schools over the last 20 years with both photocopiers and phone systems.

I told you the only way upwards was to leave in your other thread. The above start to the term confirms this.

Caravan >> Gloucester >> Pubs >> Ale.

Not seen that, no. What backup software are you using, how much free space is left ont he C drive of he ophysical servers, etc?

1. If I aint getting paid to be on call then it can wait till 8am next working day. 2. If you need it completed then put those essential staff on call. 3. See 1

Thats what 3/4 of my on premise VMs have got lol.

I must be being utterly thick as I cant see the disabled tag in theinspect thing. :-/

If there's lightsabers in it I tend to enjoy it. That being said there's plenty to critisise if I wanted to but who really cares disney gonna do what disney wants weather you have a rant on a forum or not. I am looking forward to more andor and more mandalorinan spinoffs.

Probably not a good idea to post your email in public, unless you love getting spam.

Looking better. I am using Raid 5 as it's SSD only, so i want to minimise unnecessary parity writes to prolong write endurance - Raid 6 will have a LOT more writes going on and so should be slower write speed anyway.

Looks like they've suspended registrations for now at least I can't find the registration page only button on there is "join waiting list"

Keep working on it you may find the culprit but I went through all this when I used to run Dell EMC (and other make) SANs and could never get them to perform well no matter what I tried. This is what one of my VM sees here, 8 x SSD local storage on Hyper V this VM only has 4GB ram and 2 vCPUs no storage spaces or anything at the moment as we are in between servers and in between school mergers so no point spending more for now. Literally this setup cost peanuts, refurbished/used server with refurbished/used enterprise SSDs wrapped up in a simple case of Raid5. I've only run Dell Poweredges with local storage on a decent raid card with battery backup cache for the last 10+ years and performance and reliability has been far superior to the SANS I've tried over the years.

Welcome to SANS, where you spend 10-20k and get worse performance than a bunch of drives in raid 5 or 6 in a Poweredge 740xd.

The request assistance button is a pain the the buttocks, it comes up here even though we've supposedly got it turned off!

"Mommy why is the IT guy killing the world?" "Because Hemi my child."

Confusing job description - this is basically a Network Manager role yet there is already a Network Manager in post?

Yep it's poo poo across all our schools so probably nationwide /edit its back up again if you go back to the main connected screen and reload SIMS

If the consultation period has charted then it's unlikely the new union will let you join anyway.

Depends if you want to go away or not!

Mav's got a point!