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By admin, February 26, 2013 10:32 am

今天又有一批新產品的相片更新了，先不談USD995的驚人價格，就去年11月中拍心口推出即而銷售”樓花”集資，到今天仍然在籌備醞釀中，我真服了Exoto高超的銷售手法。

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By admin, February 25, 2013 6:56 pm

當年Autoart推出了我心愛的W126 500SEC轎跑車，當機立斷入手了黑色的那款，但後來竟然在車模店發現了第三個顏色，就是深藍色廠版的蹤影，不巧一星期後就被有心人買走了。

今天又在網上發現這張漂亮的廠版相片，現在想找此物比登天還難，二手市場也早已絕跡好些時候，隨緣吧。

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By admin, February 25, 2013 6:27 pm

看樣子CMC也開始步入了JS的行列，各式各樣、五花八門的款式和拉花今年將會逐漸推出市場，連品質稍差的引擎都拿來單獨做個產品，真的很犀利啊!

這也難怪CMC，因為哪有商家有錢不賺的道理，看到別家都這樣沒良心的去經營了，辛苦把持了幾年後，先是關閉自家論壇以杜絕反對聲音，再而順波逐流地如其它JS般沉淪了下去，可惜，可惜啊，我一直還以為CMC是車模界一個出淤泥而不染擁有清高氣節的生意人，看來我又錯了。

M-095    Ferrari 312P Spyder, Sebring #.25, Amon/Andretti, 1961
M-096    Ferrari 312P Berlinetta, 1969

M-106    Bugatti 57 SC Corsica Roadster, 1938

M-108    Maserati 300 S #1  24H France, 1958, Limited 3,000 pcs
M-109    Maserati 300 S, 1956  Rolling Chassis Wood plate incl.limi.3000pcs

M-107    Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Speciale Touring Coupe, 1938
M-111    Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 B Speciale, #19 24H France,1938 limi.3000 pcs

M-117    Mercedes- Benz 300 SLR –Mille Miglia- 1955,#658 Fangio,limited 2000 pcs
M-118    Mercedes- Benz 300 SLR –Mille Miglia- 1955,#701 Kling,limited 2000 pcs
M-119    Mercedes- Benz 300 SLR –Mille Miglia- 1955,# 704 Herrmann Limited 2000 pcs

M-110    Maserati 300 S Engine, Showcase included
M-112    Bugatti 57 SC, Engine Showcase included
M-120    Mercedes- Benz  300 SLR, Engine Showcase included

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By admin, February 25, 2013 1:39 pm

剛剛看完Oscar頒獎典禮，Argo救參任務奪得最後的大獎: 奧斯卡最佳電影，第一次做導演的演員Ben Affleck講了以下好有感觸的一段:

It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life because that’s going
to happen. All that matters is that you got to get up.

今天獲獎之前Ben Affleck已經霉足近12年，之前記得應該已經是2001年珍珠港那套戲了。

所以請千萬不要輕易放棄，Life is a Miracle!

全文:

“I was here 15 years ago or something and you know I had no idea what I was doing. I stood out here in front of you all, really just a kid. I went out and I never thought I’d be back here and I am because of so many of you who are here tonight …. I want to thank what they taught me, which is that you have to work harder than you think you possibly can, you can’t hold grudges. It’s hard, but you can’t hold grudges. And it doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you got to get up.”

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By admin, February 23, 2013 5:27 pm

I googled around and couldn’t find any thing matching the error message.

Checked vCenter physical DVD-Rom (Drive Z:) is closed BUT NO CD/DVD, all VM does not have anything attached to this phyical DVD-Rom.

I am pretty sure this error message is related to starting of the vCenter server instead of the individual VM, somehow VC is trying to communicate with the physical DVD-Rom.

Anyone?

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By admin, February 23, 2013 12:58 pm

I’ve encountered a small problem when installing Chinese Language Pack (Simplified Chinese) on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Basically the downloaded exe won’t install, later I found out you need the exact lang. pack for your exact version of W2K8 (like SP1, SP2, R2, R2 SP2), for me, it’s R2 SP1, so all you need to do is to download the correct version and simply install.

Cool thing is you can change the Windows UI to Chinese completely now. No wonder there are users from Mainland using W2K8/W2K12 as their desktop OS. (ie, a SLP thing)

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By admin, February 21, 2013 10:46 pm

這個年輕的加拿大球手Really Rocks!

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By admin, February 21, 2013 11:47 am

剛見到的，1/12, 1/18, 1/24, 1/36, 1/43, 1/64, 1/87, 犀利!

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By admin, February 18, 2013 4:26 pm

Update Feb-20

Just received the latest promotion for Hong Kong customers, well, not exactly attractive as I don’t want any series E, option 3 & 4 has to buy something I don’t need.

This only leaves with option 2, but it’s Near-Line SAS, which is different from SAS (as NL-SAS is basically a merging of a SATA disk with a SAS connector), so Nope I don’t want any SATA, same reason as for series E.

Hey, somehow I think Option 2 is a cheat!

How SAS, Near Line (NL) SAS, and SATA disks compare

By Scott Lowe
February 7, 2012, 10:20 AM PST

Takeaway: Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives.

When you buy a server or storage array these days, you often have the choice between three different kinds of hard drives: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Near Line SAS (NL-SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). Yes, there are other kinds of drives, such as Fibre Channel, but I’m focusing this article on the SAS/SATA question. Further, even though solid-state disks (SSD) can have a SAS or SATA interface, I’m not focused here on SSDs. I’m focusing solely on the devices that spin really, really fast and on which most of the world’s data resides.

So, what is the real difference between SAS, NL-SAS and SATA disks? Well, to be cryptic, there are a lot of differences, but I think you’ll find some surprising similarities, too. With that, let’s dig in!

SAS

SAS disks have replaced older SCSI disks to become the standard in enterprise-grade storage. Of the three kinds of disks, they are the most reliable, maintain their performance under more difficult conditions, and perform much better than either NL-SAS or SATA disks.

In reliability, SAS disks are an order of magnitude safer than either NL-SAS or SATA disks. This metric is measured in bit error rate (BER), or how often bit errors may occur on the media. With SAS disks, the BER is generally 1 in 10^16 bits. Read differently, that means you may see one bit error out of every 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 quadrillion) bits. By comparison, SATA disks have a BER of 1 in 10^15 (1,000,000,000,000,000 or 1 quadrillion).  Although this does make it seem that SATA disks are pretty reliable, when it comes to absolute data protection, that factor of 10 can be a big deal.

SAS disks are also built to more exacting standards than other types of disks. SAS disks have a mean time between failure of 1.6 million hours compared to 1.2 million hours for SATA. Now, these are also big numbers – 1.2 million hours is about 136 years and 1.6 million hours is about 182 years. However, bear in mind that this is a mean. There will be outliers and that’s where SAS’s increased reliability makes it much more palatable.

SAS disks/controller pairs also have a multitude of additional commands that control the disks and that make SAS a more efficient choice than SATA. I’m not going to go into great detail about these commands, but will do so in a future article.

NL-SAS

NL-SAS is a relative newcomer to the storage game, but if you understand SATA and SAS, you already know everything you need to know about NL-SAS. You see, NL-SAS is basically a merging of a SATA disk with a SAS connector. From Wikipedia: “NL-SAS drives are enterprise SATA drives with a SAS interface, head, media, and rotational speed of traditional enterprise-class SATA drives with the fully capable SAS interface typical for classic SAS drives.”

There are two items of import in that sentence: “enterprise SATA drives” and “fully capable SAS interface”. In short, an NL-SAS disk is a bunch of spinning SATA platters with the native command set of SAS. While these disks will never perform as well as SAS thanks to their lower rotational rate, they do provide all of the enterprise features that come with SAS, including enterprise command queuing, concurrent data channels, and multiple host support.

Enterprise/tagged command queuing. Simultaneously coordinates multiple sets of storage instructions by reordering them at the storage controller level so that they’re delivered to the disk in an efficient way.
Concurrent data channels. SAS includes multiple full-duplex data channels, which provides for faster throughout of data.
Multiple host support. A single SAS disk can be controlled by multiple hosts without need of an expander.

However, on the reliability spectrum, don’t be fooled by the acronym “SAS” appearing in the product name. NL-SAS disks have the same reliability metrics as SATA disks – BER of 1 in 10^15 and MTBF of 1.2 million hours. So, if you’re thinking of buying NL-SAS disks because SAS disks have better reliability than SATA disks, rethink. If reliability is job #1, then NL-SAS is not your answer.

On the performance scale, NL-SAS won’t be much better than SATA, either. Given their SATA underpinning, NL-SAS disks rotate at speeds of 7200 RPM… the same as most SATA disks, although there are some SATA drives that operate at 10K RPM.

It seems like there’s not much benefit to the NL-SAS story. However, bear in mind that this is a SATA disk with a SAS interface and, with that interface comes a number of benefits, some of which I briefly mentioned earlier. These features allow manufacturers to significantly simplify their products.

SATA

Lowest on the spectrum is the SATA disk. Although it doesn’t perform as well as SAS and doesn’t have some of the enterprise benefits of NL-SAS, SATA disks remain a vital component in any organization’s storage system, particularly for common low-tier, mass storage needs.

When you’re buying SATA storage, your primary metric is more than likely to be cost per TB and that’s as it should be. SAS disks are designed for performance, which is why they’re available in 10K and 15K RPM speeds and provide significant IOPS per physical disk. With SAS, although space is important, the cost per IOPS is generally just as, if not more, important. This is why many organizations are willing to buy speedier SAS disks even though it means buying many more disks (than SATA or NL-SAS) to hit capacity needs.

Summary

At a high level, SAS and SATA are two sides of the storage coin and serve different needs — SAS for performance and SATA for capacity. Straddling the two is NL-SAS, which brings some SAS capability to SATA disks, but doesn’t bring the additional reliability found with SAS. NL-SAS helps manufacturers streamline production, and can help end users from a controller perspective, but they are not a replacement for SAS.

In an upcoming post, I’ll talk about SAS commands and why they help cement SAS’s enterprise credibility.

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By admin, February 17, 2013 12:23 pm

俄國的Scale Figures工作室最近又推出了套Top Gear的手辦人偶，但是除了Jeremy Clarkson比較像樣外，其它兩個都不太行，James May更加是嚴重走樣、慘不忍睹。

另外發現Scale Figures發出聲明說法國有假代理商冒充其公司經營翻版質量低劣的人偶，所以對全法國禁售以起到懲罰性的作用。

但是好笑的是Scale Figures本身的人偶就是未經授權的，頗有此地無銀三百兩、賊喊捉賊的味道。:)