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	<title>The professional blog of Christopher Randel &#187; Fail</title>
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		<title>Dell Support Round Three</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/08/18/dell-support-round-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is pretty genuinely terrifying. Enterprise class stuff that doesn&#8217;t seem to be well tested. Running 10K SAS Seagate Drives &#8230; and this guy sends me a disk that updates the firmware to just about every enterprise class disk out there.



System &#8211; You are now being connected to an agent. Thank you for using Dell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Tech Support</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/07/15/dell-tech-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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I can&#8217;t decide if this is good or bad. 


6:58:43 PM System You are now being connected to an agent. Thank you for using Dell Chat
6:58:43 PM System Connected with AES Chris G
6:58:48 PM AES Chris G : Hello, thank you for contacting Dell&#8217;s Enterprise Chat Support. My name is AES Chris G. Once the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC updates, and a few fun problems</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/06/11/pc-updates-and-a-few-fun-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rightous Hacks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after about a month and a half, and ~15 days of real usage, my Intel X25-E SSD first produced smart errors, then worked intermittantly, then eventually failed.
Some of the warning signs of my X25-E failing were:

Coming back to my computer, to find it unresponsive.
Event logs recored write delays and write errors for the SSD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VMWare Server hits a wall.</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/05/19/vmware-server-hits-a-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[System Architecture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[System:

Supermicro 6015P-8RB
Super Micro Low-Profile All-in-One Zero Channel RAID Card
1x Intel Xeon L5320 1.86GHz Quad-Core
4X 4GB FB-DIMM DDR2-667
 4x 146.8GB Cheetah ST3146855LC 15K Ultra 320 SCSI SCA 80 Pin in RAID-10
Windows Server 2003 X64 running VMWare Server 2.0
Running 12-16 Ubuntu/Redhat/FreeBSD/W2K3 instances

Problem: Adding additional instances make the server literally hit the wall for disk access. CPU and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSD and You</title>
		<link>http://chrisrandel.com/index.php/2009/04/16/ssd-and-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SSD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been onboard with SSD for a while now, I bought myself a Gigabyte I-RAM a couple years ago, and have been using it for games/windows profile, and later page file for a while. Other than the capacity and price, I&#8217;m really happy with it. It ran me about 200$ total, with 4 x 1GB [...]]]></description>
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