| Series | Episode # | Description |
| Tokyo ESP |
8 | Ga-Rei Zero AU. X-Men the anime almost |
| Tokyo Ghoul | 12(Done) | Male Lead becomes first hybrid Ghoul Human thing, tries to retain his humanity. |
| Sword Art Online II | 13 | Gun Gale Online! Need more be said? |
| Aldnoah.Zero | 12(Done) | Mars is colonized and comes back for war against earth with future alien tech. |
| Barakamon | 12(Done) | Famous big city Calligrapher punch critics and is now living in an island where he learns from the country folks more about his art and life. |
| Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!? | 8 | Poor Male lead fights for an apartment againt a ghost, mole people, alien loli, and a (magical) cosplayer. |
| Sabagebu! | 9 | Survival Game Club, with the most overactive imagination. |
| Terror in Tokyo | 11(Done) | Terrorist duo fights against the city with bombs and riddles. |
| Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun | 12(Done) | Reverse Mangaka-san to Assistant-san. Shoujo Manga artist clueless to the advances of his classmate |
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Summer 2014 Anime Tracker
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Summer 2014 List of Animes and Voting
Another new Season! Check out the list of anime and vote for what you want to see. Continuing series from last season is Knights of Sidonia.
Also as an update new rules for sequels. Since they are becoming more and more popular to skip a season between anime runs. If the majority of Anime watched an anime that’s a sequel it becomes available for voting. As such, Space Dandy 2 and Sword Art Online II is available for voting this season.
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Spring 2014 Anime Tracker
And the Winners we are watching are:
Series Episode # Description No Game No Life 8 Incestous gaming duo rocks a world based on games. Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu Ka? 8 Bunny cafe with most epic Tippy cat bunny thing. Captain Earth 6 Super combination space mech & a boomerang. Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin 8 Treasure hunting has never been this MOE or 3D. Mekakucity Actors 8 Miku Hatsune: Shaft style. Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou 8 Book girl + high school crush / room mates of crazy. Isshuukan Friends 8 1 Week Friends. Memory loss making friends weekly. Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara 8 Flag raising parody of Dating sims Sidonia no Kishi 8 3D, Tentacle monsters, 3rd gender, and mechs oh my. Selector Infected WIXOSS 3 Dramatic Angelic Layer card game for wishes. -
Spring 2014 Currently Watching Anime
For those who missed Friday’s Anime Night. It starts after Sidonia no Kishi
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No Game No Life
Akuma no Riddle
Black Bullet
Blade & Soul
Captain Earth
Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?
Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara
Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
Selector Infected WIXOSS
Sidonia no Kishi
Atelier Escha & Logy
Gokukoku no Brynhildr
Hitsugi no Chaika
Isshuukan Friends.
Kenzen Robo Daimidaler
Mekakucity Actors
Ryuugajou Nanana no Maizoukin
Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii
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Spring 2014 PV/Trailer Chart
Description | More Info
The story is set at Myoujou Academy, a private girls’ boarding school. The 10th year’s Kurogumi class has 12 assassins with their sights on one target, Haru Ichinose. Tokaku Azuma is a recent transfer student who is also targeting Ichinose, but she gradually develops feelings for Ichinose. (Source: ANN)
Action, School, Yurihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICngdUaH1I
Atelier Escha & Logy ~Tasogare no Sora no Renkinjutsushi~
Description | More Info
This world has gone through many Dusks, and is slowly nearing its end. Within this world, in the western reaches of the “Land of Dusk,” there was a nation that prospered thanks to its use of alchemy. There, in order to survive the eventual arrival of the “Dusk End,” the people devoted their efforts to rediscover and recreate lost alchemic technologies. Rediscovered technology from the past era was gathered in the alchemy research city known as “Central,” where research was conducted on how to halt the advance of the twilight. One of the heroes is a young man who researched alchemy in Central, the other a girl living in a small town on the frontier. This girl’s name is Escha. In the process of using her knowledge of ancient alchemy to help others, she was assigned to the Development Department. The young man’s name is Logy. Having learned the newest alchemic techniques in Central, he requested a transfer to this understaffed town to make use of his abilities, and meets Escha when he is assigned to the Development Department as well. The two make a promise to use their alchemy together, and bring success to the Development Department. (Source: ANN)Fantasy -
Error Guide to Server 2003 to 2012R2
Since Server 2003 is finally at the end of life cycle, we had to update to a new domain controller. Supposedly you can update Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012. This is apparently true but not without great difficulty. Since I get to see alot of different environments and systems. I also get to organize quite a few Server 2003 to Server 2012R2 updates at the same time. Below are various errors that came up and fixes you need to get around them.
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Winter 2014 Eps Tracker
The Episodes we have seen are listed below,
Series Episode # Description KILL la KILL 20 My Uniform will Pierce the Heavens Space Dandy 7 My name is Dandy, Space Dandy World Conquest: ZVEZDA PLOT 7 Loli girl World Conquest! Log Horizon 15 Politically Evil Glasses Wearing Not Sword Art NiseKoi 7 Your School Romantic Comedy just got Shafted Witch Craft Works 7 The not Shafted Anime about the Female Witch Prince and her Male Princess No-Rin 6 Not Silver Spoon with 100% more not Idols. Mikakunin de Shinkoukei 7 I’m Married to a Country bumpkin. wah?! D-Frag! 5 My True Element is Darkness! -
Winter 2014 Anime Season
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Current Anime’s Seen at Anime Night!
D-Frag! – Eps 1
Hamatora the Animation – Eps 1
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei – Eps 1
Nobunaga the Fool – Eps 1
SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation – Eps 1
Noragami – Eps 1
Space Dandy – Eps 1
Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta – Eps 1
Witch Craft Works – Eps 1
Golden Time – Eps 11
Kill la Kill – Eps 12
Log Horizon – Eps 11
Buddy Complex – Eps 1
Chuunibyou demo koi ga Shitai! Ren
Silver Spoon 2
Hoozuki no Reitetsu – Eps 1
Inari Konkon, Koi Iroha
Mahou Sensou – Eps 1
Nisekoi Eps -1
Nobunagun
Nourin – Eps 1
Seikin, Imouto no Yousu ga Chotto Okashiinda ga. – Eps 1
Sakura Trick – Eps 1
Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda – Eps 1
Wake Up, Girls! – Eps 1
Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil – Eps 1
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Anime for Anime Night Fall 2013 Edition
The Episodes we have seen are listed below, along with a poll for what you want to watch!
Episode Tracker:
Series Episode # Description KILL la KILL 11 My Uniform will Pierce the Heavens Outbreak Company 12(Fin) The Ultimate Dream Job IS: Infinite Stratos 2 12(Fin) Country Wars! Now with my jelly. Kyousougiga 9(of 10) Follow the Black Rabbit down a Shinto wonderland. My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy 10(Fin) My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy Log Horizon 11 Not Sword Art. Golden Time 11 Stalker Childhood friend Slice of life. Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova 12(Fin) 3D LoliSubs I Couldn`t Become a Hero, so I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, 9(of 12) The title +20% more melonpan. Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta 8(of 13) Supernatural City’s student council defends the town. Kyoukai no Kanata 10(of 12) Clumsy Demon Slayer. [polldaddy poll=”7493393″]
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SSD Drives in a Large RAID Array Performance Benchmarking and Results
SSD Drives being one of the newest forms of storage have been making rapid advancements in speed. It’s fairly common now that SSD drives are pushing the limit on whatever the latest throughput is on an interface.
Of course we’re always looking for faster. So the question is how can we make it faster if each drive is now currently pushed to the bandwidth limitation of SATA?
The answer is surprisingly easy enough that any IT or enthusiast should be able to tell you. It’s a RAID. RAID utilizes multiple Hard drives to collectively increase the speed of the volume. The interesting part however is that our usually knowledge on RAID performance comes from hard drives and while SSD Drives perform the same function as a hard drive the performance is astronomically different which creates some interesting circumstances.
The rule of thumb for RAID historically with hard drives is as follows.
Read Performance Write Performance RAID 0 RAID 0 RAID 10 RAID 10 RAID 1 / Raid 5 RAID 1 RAID 5 But SSD drives are much faster but will that fundamentally change how fast a RAID array?
The Test Bed
For this test we’re using a Dell Server the specs are below,
Hardware
- Dell PowerEdge R720 Server
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2640
- 96GB of Ram
- Perc H710 Mini w/ 512mb ram (FW 21.2.0-0007)
- 8x Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB
- 1TB Seagate HD
Software
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- HD Tune Pro
Raid Configuration
- 64KB Stripes
- 8xSSD Raid 5
- 8xSSD Raid 10
- 8xSSD Raid 6
- 8xSSD Raid 50
Benchmarking results
For the benchmarking test we used HD Tune Pro 5.50 to run the test.
We took the average of testing the entire volume using 1MB chunks.
The most surprising results in the test is that RAID 10 is the slowest of all the RAID levels in Read and Write. Considering that the main goal of RAID 10 is to provide the best performance with redundancy it’s a bit shocking.
So now the question is why? What’s going on that is causing this discrepancy. For that we require more data. The next set of test we’re going to benchmark each RAID starting at the smaller array till we hit 8 drives on the benchmark.
Raid 0 Benchmarking Results
From this we can see that after 6 drives the gain are fairly low. Also Raid 0 at 7 drives seems to have an odd issue. This was retested multiple times but that low read throughput was consistent.
As you can see by the curve in this configuration the gains we get are smaller and smaller the more drives you add. At a 2 drive Raid 0 it’s almost 93% faster than 1 drive. But by the time we go from 4 drives to 5 drives the gain is only 15%. Eventually we’ll get to a point where there are no noticeable gains in speed. For the write speed which is already slower it’s mostly level at 5 drives already.
Raid 5 Benchmarking Results
As expected with Raid 5 we’re getting faster read speeds but slower write. That hasn’t changed any. Although you can see that we’re reaching the upper speed of ~1800MB/s with the Raid 5 speed as we did with the Raid 0 speed. Looking at it, it seems that this might imply the bottleneck at this speed is due to something in the RAID controller or further down the line. Ignoring the point where it reaches 1800 anyhow. Much odder is the write speed also caps at 1200 for both the RAID 0 and RAID 5. Well have to see if this is a persistent trend.
Raid 6
We can see here the extra parity causing a massive slowdown in comparison to the other RAIDs. You can also see a curve start to form but without additional drives we can’t conclude if this also suffers from slowdown at 1800MB/s
Raid 10
Another surprising result, I was expecting that at a 4 drive Raid 10 it would be about the speed as a 2 drive Raid 0. The mostly flat line here shows that it’s a very minor correlation, if any. Another major surprise is that at 4 drive’s it’s faster than a 3 drive RAID 5 which would give you the same amount of storage but compared to a 4 drive RAID 5 the read speed is on par and surprisingly enough the write speed is faster in the RAID 5. So the general statement that RAID 10 is faster than RAID 5 only apples in a small scale as RAID 10 is the worst scaling in terms of performance and storage than any other RAID.
Raid 50
With only 2 data points in the RAID 50 we can’t actually draw that many real conclusions from it. The results themselves leave many questions wanting to be answered. It seems as if the performance for 6 drive RAID 50 is twice the performances of a 3 drive Raid 5, minus an overhead of ~230MB/s. The Write throughput there’s not enough data at all to get any conclusions on what’s going on.
Conclusion
Going through the data it seems RAID 10 is going obsolete. Previous it was thought that the parity system in RAID 5 would tax write performance. While it does in this case it’s not as much as the redundant drive. At 4 drives the minimum drives need for RAID 10 it’s on par as the performance of a RAID 5 at 4 drives but the RAID 5 offers more storage. As you add more drives the gap just widens further and further. The next larger RAID 10 array at 6 drives already RAID 50 is much more sufficient.
However this is only the case in SSD drives using a powerful raid controller. As we see here this setup caps around 1800MB/s it would be interesting to see if we had more drives RAID 50 might also be a good contender.