PotNoodleTech

Are you talking about the support? it shouldnt be that expensive, 400 a year odd for 4 sockets here.

Try and get the rack mount kits from second hand suppliers - they're gonna sting you for new ones if you can even get them on those servers. I'd prefer to have the server room in a room of it's own rather than have them shoved in the corner next to pipes/ boilers which could spew water everywhere!

Should last more like 37 weeks - 56kwh is nearly the size of a Tesla Car battery!

If you get no luck giving it away - try Techbuyer and ask for Terry Peacock - they gave me strong money for my 5+yr old HP Procurve kit when ours was "upgraded" with external funding.

Thanks archie very useful post. I think in an ideal world the tannoy option would be the one - getting them to pay for 100+ speakers etc is another ball game though!

Running older ones here so not sure on current model numbers but 2 x 9130 5000 in server room each hardwired on to a different phase on the 3 phase 2 x 9SX 3000 running data cabs single phase normal plugs Built in network ports on all of mine?

I'd take Eaton over APC any day of the week and twice on sundays. Have 4 Eatons here ultra reliable.

This is the company that made 1.1 billion profit in just 6 months towards the end of last year right? It must be a struggle for them I think we should give them more money to be honest.

Here you go: *.* Your welcome

Indeed but it depends if the price increases were built into the contract and stated clearly which you signed (e.g. price increases will be RPI + 5% or whatever.) If not, then the contract price is the contract price until the end of the contract. I frankly don't know why people are still using RM the company fell apart 15 years ago. I do miss RM CC3's ease of use and the Tech seminars but I've never really looked back since dumping them!

Interesting!!

Cant beat an orange printer! reminds me of my Voron 0.1 I built :-) I call it Tango Alpha!

They come up very rarely on the second hand market as, as you know they are workhorses. Good luck!

Paying games like COD is just plain stressful. The constant push to get faster and faster simply favors youngsters over middle aged gamers. I mean even the streamers who stream it seem to hate playing it. Not for me. I game to relax.

Nope. I believe it's got to be a synology NAS but even the smaller ones can do it so possibly don't need to spend thousands?

This is beyond my area of expertise as I have only backup up with Veeam to fixed and constantly available drives (server, nas, san, cloud) as opposed to rotating USB drives, but I am sure I remember you have to set up the USB drives in a certain way (like a pool of drives that can be used) rather than just plugging in a random drive and hoping it works? For most methods Veeam constantly refers to previously held data (old backups) to do incremental backups and file scrubbing of old data, so if you have then removed the old backup drive(s) I can see why you are getting lots of errors as Veeam won't be expecting to not be able to see that data again.

Usually best way to find this out is to go on the drivers section of the manufacturer website and see what O/S the drivers give in the drop down list. In this case it appears to be 2003 2008 and 2012 are supported. This doesn't mean 2019 and above won't work as they have built in O/S drivers for most things now - you'd have to try it and see.

It was quite blustery! Few trees down the river was very high school looks ok not found any swimming pools yet on my walkaround!!

Yep Lenovo have refused every one of our RMAs citing some kind of non/barely existent scratch or damage, there's always some excuse as to why they need to charge £250 to repair a £150 chromebook. The warranty isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Collars? We work like dogs so it is fitting.

Yes that's what I meant - how do you go back from the 2 digit is this you thing to just using the 6 digit code out of interest? Mine used to be 6 digit code when I first set it up but it seems it changed itself to is this you prompt at some stage?

Ah sorry I thought you meant the 6 digit code always displayed in the app. My bad.

If using 1GB links I would suggest link aggregating 2 or 4 connections if you have enough fiber/SFP ports, if using 10GB links then it's not really needed, 1x 10GB *should* be enough for most schools.

How do you force TOTP my staff are being asked for codes using authenitcator? Thanks

Oh dear. Once I mandated my proxy server details and copied that proxy file onto each PC it did work for us last year. The software is garbage written in a shed.