* Posts by simon casey 1

4 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Feb 2011

128GB DDR4 DIMMs have landed so double your RAM cram plan

simon casey 1

Re: Make Moooaaaarrrrrr!!!

Not really. I've never met anyone who said "yeah I've got enough memory now. I'm done."

Memory reqs grow. Midrange / *NIX system people have the same growing appetite for memory.

Just remember the 640k is enough for anyone lark.

simon casey 1

POST

I remember testing a server with 96 x 64Gb sticks in...

POST memory check took well.... it took over a day.

How to choose the right screen size

simon casey 1

21:9?

So what about 21:9 screens with proper 2.35:1 aspect input akin to all the photos in the article?

Delete all you like, but it won't free up space

simon casey 1

Jeez...

Talk about stating the blooming obvious.

Does he also have any wise words of wisdom akin to this regarding thin prov volumes?

Ok for the layman where de-dupe isn't really in use in the consumer field (much), it may be a realisation that isn't pointed out hard enough, but anyone running de-dupe in a commercial environment I would hope already knows this! Then again I don't think at the consumer level you'd be explaining how deduplication, pointers etc really work.

That and his advice only really accounts for de-dupe systems at an object level, if you're dealing with de-dupe at a block level (many tape backup systems?) the ability to release/reclaim space when you have 2Tb+ blocks of tapes even knowing what'll be released when any given volume is deleted will be tricky and will shrink over time when your factoring ratio increases natch.

All IM(own)HO