@scottalanmiller said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Well, what you can power with PoE rarely means you should. I can power just about anything, doesn't always make it a good idea.

Oh for sure. But who knows, this technology looks kinda promising. Maybe in 10 years it'll be worth it.

What's the "worth it", in this case? What factor of it makes it even interesting?

I'll call you in 10 years.

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Well, what you can power with PoE rarely means you should. I can power just about anything, doesn't always make it a good idea.

Oh for sure. But who knows, this technology looks kinda promising. Maybe in 10 years it'll be worth it.

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

@Kelly Just out of curiosity, were those people in IT or electrical/maintenance? It would be interesting to see what department would pay for what when things go wrong.

I've just been reading up on all the wonders of PoE powered lighting and I was just wondering if anyone here has had to deal with these installations before. What are your experiences? Are they worth the pricing with new buildings?

@scottalanmiller Thanks, figured as much.

@dafyre Yup

But if we are talking servers they are likely running some kind of hypervisor. Does the hypervisor run defrag?

Yeah it's a our hypervisor cluster. I can't find any mention of defragging in the documentation, but their documentation is a little scant on the real nitty gritty side.

@Pete-S said in SAS Drives RPMs:

Maybe they meant by fragmentation?

As they are used and data becomes more and more fragmented, they also becomes slower as the head has to move all over the place.

He did mention that, but as a separate issue.

So awhile ago I had a vendor who we already do business with, and has been pretty reputable so far, claim that over time our 10K SAS drives will slow down due to wear and tear. I've never heard of this before and to me if a hard drive starts to slow then it just show as a critical failure. Is this wrong?

@Dashrender said in Suggested vendor for selling used equipment?:

@Markferron said in Suggested vendor for selling used equipment?:

@JaredBusch said in Suggested vendor for selling used equipment?:

No clue. Bcause of the licensing,, I would not even know where to start.

They wanted $97 for one year license on MR32s. At least a three year old AP.

What's worse is - you stop paying, the APs stop working.

You can get a Unifi AC Lite for $90ish and that's likely good for 5+ years of free updates from Ubiquiti.

Oh we're definitely making the change over. 9k for licenses or 12k for new equipment.

@JaredBusch said in Suggested vendor for selling used equipment?:

No clue. Bcause of the licensing,, I would not even know where to start.

They wanted $97 for one year license on MR32s. At least a three year old AP.

I've got really strange offers from 1500-6500. I really don't know how people plan on making any money on these.

I'm looking to sell around 150 Meraki APs/antennas and accessories. Some of them are used and some are actually still in the box. Does anyone have suggestions for companies to sell this too? I know a lot of people here have gotten rid of Meraki gear.

@scottalanmiller No but they're always very specific, and almost always ridiculous.

"I'm preparing for the albino gnome invasion..."

@scottalanmiller Just the show. Someone uploaded a bunch of episodes on youtube. Makes me happy.

Watching doomsday preppers. I love how crazy these people are.

@JaredBusch Do you think they need to offer something between the ERPro-8 and the ER-8-XG?

@dafyre Yup! This Feb we're going to finally get gig I believe. There's another ISP that's emerged that's threatening our current one :).