Re: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

2015-07-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun As drive capacities increased, transfer speed also did. (You have updated your motherboards to 6G SATA, right?) Nope. Well - Drives increased speed up to around 1Gbit/sec around 10 years ago, and there

Re: [Discuss] VPS suggestions

2015-07-11 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne Any VPS suggestions? For the last year I’ve been using Digital Ocean. The price is right and the servers are fast. Unfortunately it appears apt-get can’t update the kernel. You have to use

Re: [Discuss] OpenSWAN VPN

2015-07-11 Thread Matt Shields
Routing table looks good, on both sides I can see the other's routes in my routing table and it shows the correct next hop. I'd much prefer OpenVPN, that's what we normally use for both employees and clients. I even have it linked to Active Directory, plus custom rules when they log in. But

Re: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

2015-07-11 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/11/2015 8:55 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: It took a surprisingly long time for SSD's to get faster than sustainable 1Gbit/sec, but they've accomplished it now. Nowadays, I expect a typical SSD to actually be limited by the 6Gbit bus. The two Crucial BX100 drives in my notebook

Re: [Discuss] NAS: lots of bays vs. lots of boxes

2015-07-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: As drive capacities increased, transfer speed also did. (You have updated your motherboards to 6G SATA, right?) I posted here not too long ago that I'd suffered a triple-disk failure, which forced me to buy into the

Re: [Discuss] NAS: encryption

2015-07-11 Thread Tom Metro
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: Tom Metro wrote: I imagine it would be challenging to pull off encryption well with appliance hardware. The first problem is getting the software to do it. (Plus all the automation you've previously discussed to set up the keys on boot.) The second challenge is