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Don't get Shingled by SMR by
David Lesher
A cautionary tale:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/caveat-emptor-smr-disks-are-being-submarined-into-unexpected-channels/
Buyer beware~that 2TB-6TB "NAS" drive you've been eyeing might be SMR
Hard drives were already bad at random access I/O~but SMR disks are worse.
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Do SSD's lose performance as they age? by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
My oldest SATA SSD (which is also my boot drive) is not showing the same
kind of performance it did when it was new. I only discovered it
recently after buying a new secondary SATA SSD, which I benchmarked, and
then as a comparison I compared it against the older one. The new one is
showing a...
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"How Reliable are SSDs?" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"How Reliable are SSDs?"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/
"What’s not to love about solid state drives (SSDs)? They are faster
than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), more compact, have no moving
parts, are immune to magnetic fields, and can withstand more shocks...
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"Exabyte Unlocked" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Exabyte Unlocked"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/exabyte-unlocked/
"We’ve reached 1."
"Or, by another measurement, we’ve reached 1,000,000,000,000,000,000."
"Yes, today, we’re announcing that we are storing 1 exabyte of customer
data."
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"Hard Drive Stats for 2019" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Drive Stats for 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/
"As of December 31, 2019, Backblaze had 124,956 spinning hard drives. Of
that number, there were 2,229 boot drives and 122,658 data drives. This
review looks at the hard drive failure rates for the data...
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"Drive Stats Update" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Drive Stats Update"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/drive-stats-update/
"What we’re seeing in our fleet right now is a higher-than-typical
failure rate among some of our 12TB Seagate drives."
Uh-oh.
Lynn
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SeaTools Bootable USB *NOT IMPRESSED* by
[email protected]
I have used the Seatools for DOS burnt to a CD for yonks.
But sometimes it floundered with new hardware, either not seeing any
disk drives, or keyboard not working.
So got the new SeaTools bootable creator and put it on a USB thumb drive.
It booted up on a system where the old CD was no good, and...
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IS this the normal shut down sound a Seagate Barracuda HD makes by
Sam
It only happens when I shut down Windows. Should I go into the bios and shut down from there, it's not present. However, I had the same harsh sound about 6 years ago with another Seagate connected via a dock.
The audio file is he https://gofile.io/?c=GmmM8z
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Should I Secure Erase my SSD before sending it back for warranty? by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
The reason I ask is that the utility that came with the SSD says that
there is a possibility that if you use the secure erase feature that it
will lockup the whole drive. So should I secure erase or just delete the
partition and that should be sufficient? I don't want the manufacturer
blaming...
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Xpost from cctalk: Disposing: IBM Microchannel cards, for free by
Grant Taylor
Guy sent the following post to the cctalk mailing list:
--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--
I'm clearing out some old stuff. These are free (but you pay postage) if
anyone wants them.
Catch: they are in Sydney Australia.
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Digital...
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q3-2019/
"As of September 30, 2019, Backblaze had 115,151 spinning hard drives
spread across four data centers on two continents. Of that number, there
were 2,098 boot drives and 113,053 data...
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“Raising Prices is Hard” by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
“Raising Prices is Hard”
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/raising-prices-is-hard/
Man, they are so right. And there is always the question that should one
be lowering prices.
Lynn
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"Petabytes on a Budget: 10 Years and Counting" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Petabytes on a Budget: 10 Years and Counting"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-years-and-counting/
"It has been 10 years since Backblaze introduced our Storage Pod to the
world. In September 2009, we announced our hulking, eye-catching, red 4U
storage server equipped...
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"An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"An Inside Look at the Backblaze Storage Pod Museum"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-museum/
From 45 TB in a storage pod to today's 840 TB in a storage pod. Amazing.
Lynn
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/
"As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our
ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980
boot drives and 108,660 data drives. This review...
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External drives may contain refurbished drives! by
Percival P. Cassidy
I just read a piece by BackBlaze discussing the best kinds of drives to
use for various purposes, and I noticed that they claim that external
drives *may* contain refurbished drives!
This could account for the reports on Amazon that the drives inside a
certain Seagate external drive had an...
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What's inside a WD Essentials external drive? by
Percival P. Cassidy
You won't know until you shuck it: Amazon reviews and answers to
questions concerning WD Essentials USB3 external drives show that what's
inside may vary -- some "white label," some HGST datacenter drives --
perhaps depending on what they had a surplus of at any particular time
(and are some of...
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