This whole EVO performance problem is a crock of shit. People only noticed the problem running synthetic benchmarks. For normal usage, there'll be no perceptible performance issue with these drives. And yes, I have a couple of EVO drives, and yes, they are also hit with the performance issue. I just don't notice because it's such a non-issue outside of synthetic benchmarks.

Bullshit I have 2 EVO's and I did notice. Some regions were very very slow (50-60 MB/s).
When your VM copy suddenly takes 5-10 times as long as expected, you do notice.

My guess is that every argument you just said will be met with a shrug and "It seems to work just fine for us, don't know what you're talking about. So how do we push a group policy to all clients in Linux?" and if your best answer is to write a script to ssh into each box and patch a configuration file they'll just roll their eyes and say "Linux does not have the necessary management features we need" and you've got one more group added to the list of migration opponents.

You use a configuration management system (puppet,chef,cfengine,ansible). But yes AD is a very comprehensive suite of pre-selected tools known to work together.

(Posting anon because I just modded him 'Underrated' to correct this travesty.)

What about the travesty of abusing the moderation system like that to put weight on your own opinion ?

"And I know there's a lot of MS hate from IT people, and sure, I hear you, they could do a lot more to make it better for all you tech wizards that know networking like the back of your hand. It's probably that which is clouding your judgment of their system

We don't like the office stack because it's a huge opaque application suite that is horrible to troubleshoot and fix when it breaks.

but I could see the plaintext of your ssh connection to a CISCO switch.

Is Cisco's ssh weak (known private keys?) or does your inline IDS somehow man in the middles it ?

I'm tired of throwing away several Intel or Samsung SSDs every week. My last set of nine Samsung 840s that I installed in development desktops lasted less than 90 days before they wore-out. Yes, we're hard on drives, but it's ridiculous how much time our IT department is throwing away due to the fact SSD drives are considered disposable and die so quickly. They're crap. There's a reason you still see 15k spinning rust in data centers. MLC SSDs are garbage that should not be legal to be sold.