Servers
TrueRack & Everything Else
Advanced Features
NOT A CATEGORY
100
Name the three SSD interfaces/protocols
SATA, SAS, NVMe
100
What are the two main product categories sold by iXsystems?
Storage & Servers
100
Name 3 benefits of the ZFS file-system
Self-Healing, Copy on Write, Instant and/or space-saving snapshots, Thin provisioning, RAID Z3, Automatic scrubs and/or no fsck or self-check, No RAID write hole, RAID rebuild only copies data, intermix of file block and object data in a single store
100
Just for Points
Purposely created for Points
200
The Intel code name for their v5 processor line is Skylake. Name the product code name for it
Intel Xeon Scalable Family
200
Name 6 of the Solutions pages on the iXsystems Website
Any 6: Backup, Big Data, Cloud, Development, Education, Finance, Government, Hi-Tech, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Virtualization
200
Name the features that are in FreeNAS 11 but not in TrueNAS 11
Jails/Plugins and Virtualization
300
The maximum number of CPU sockets offered in an iX Server
8
300
The ZFS term for RAID rebuild
Resilvering
300
We just published a blog on a specific ransomware attack. Name the subject of the blog
StorageCrypter Ransomware
400
The number of drives supported by the iX-4260 from our Jupiter JBOD series (hint: it was in the #StorageEnvy "Drives For Days" blog)
60
400
The name of the customer for the first Case Study on TrueRack
Benjamin Franklin Charter School
400
The default compression used in ZFS
LZ4
500
Name the three NVMe form factors
M.2, U.2, PCI-e (add-in card)
500
The average Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) savings of a TrueRack configuration over AWS (in %)
70%
500
What are the savings (Marketing numbers) for compression?
2.5x savings for compression
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