The Dell 7920 that I'm setting up came with four 1 TB spinning rust drives attached to the controller on the motherboard. For a baseline, here's how fast they are: That's about 1600 bits/sec at best. Pretty unimpressive. Next up is the 2 TB boot solid state drive (SSD) … [Read more...]
Dell 7920 OOBE, again
I've been using my old Dell 7920 as my main workstation for more than three years now, and it's getting a little long in the tooth. In January, I ordered a replacement from Dell. Initially, they quoted delivery in mid-February. After a couple of weeks, that slipped to mid-March. … [Read more...]
QNAP TS-1232PXU-RP NAS OOBE
I have long used Synology enterprise NAS boxes, after bad experiences with Buffalo, Drobo, and the consumer-level Synology boxes. I have three running now, and the youngest one is 6 years old. It's time to think about upgrading, to get hardware that isn't approaching the end of … [Read more...]
SonicWALL TZ 470W OOBE — part 2
I called SonicWALL support yesterday and the call went much better than the first support call. For openers, the tech was apparently a native English speaker, and I had no difficulty understanding her. For another, she picked up right away on the problem. I ordered a new 470 … [Read more...]
SonicWALL TZ 470W OOBE — part 1
This is a report on the out-of-box experience that I'm having with a new firewall, the SonicWALL TZ 470W. I've been using SonicWALL firewalls for more than 20 years, and have generally had good luck with them, but when the licensing ran out on my NSA 3600 I switched to Sophos, … [Read more...]
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