wayne_h

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by wayne_h 12y ago
paid for with taxpayer money - so it should be made public. we own those patches!
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by wayne_h 12y ago
Surprisingly the article doesn't mention the biggest benefit of telling the truth.... Truth forces you to confront your own shortcomings - its an opportunity for self-improvement. If I miss a deadline I could makeup some baloney and la
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by wayne_h 13y ago
I bet it has to do with the target market. 4tb external drives are something an end-user consumer would shop for based on price. While a 4tb bare internal is shopped for by techies building systems.
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by wayne_h 13y ago
Data recovery guy here... Failure of external drives has mostly to do with their handling. They get bumped around while runnning. People trip over the cords and knock them over. They stack them like pancakes and they overheat. They block th
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by wayne_h 13y ago
"... flipped the disk over..." They called them flippy disks...
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by wayne_h 13y ago
Data Recovery guy here... SSDs are fast - but you better back them up. When an SSD fails its usually complete and without warning. Spinning drives will often give you some warning signs, clicking, slowing down, bad sector errors etc. Spinni
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by wayne_h 13y ago
Oh, I see what your are saying ... that zfs can detect corrupted files, true. Whats likely to happen in this case is this: The first blocks of the disk contain the superblock, labels-descriptors and other filesystem metadata. Most of which
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by wayne_h 13y ago
I don't see how zfs can detect the problem any sooner than any other filesystem. If the problem is caused by the controller wrapping at 2tb then I wouldn't expect zfs to figure it out until later when it tries to read files back a
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by wayne_h 13y ago
I am currently working on a data recovery caused by 2tb limited bridge controller. Customer had an external usb/firewire box with a 3tb drive. At 2tb the writes 'wrapped' back to block 0. Its a mac filesystem. Everything work
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by wayne_h 13y ago
Meanwhile... California is trying to build a 100 billion dollar bullet-train boondogle that will be ready in 20 years. By that point our efficient electric cars will be able to link together in high speed freeway 'trains'. What i
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by wayne_h 13y ago
This was caused by government unintended consequences.... Some doctors graduated from med school with $100ks in loans. So they immediately filed for bankruptcy and cleared the debt. After a few years of work they were back in the bucks and
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by wayne_h 13y ago
'Basic income'? Lets start with 'Basic grading' Currently students earn grades A-F. From now on we should have a 'basic grade', all students will be given a 'D' - a basic passing grade. You get your &
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by wayne_h 14y ago
... to get to the other side... waw-waw-waaaaah....
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by wayne_h 14y ago
You could be having the TLER problem. WD green drives can take a long time to do error correction - this causes the raid to drop the drive as failed. This solution is to respond with an error quickly and let the raid fix it with parity....
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by wayne_h 14y ago
I have been doing raid data recovery for many years. A very common scenario is "Two Drives Failed at Once". This is usually not the case. What usually happens is 1 drive fails. The raid then goes into degraded mode and continues to function
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by wayne_h 14y ago
and don't underestimate the manufacturers ability to screw it up. Like when people 'upgrade' the firmware in their Buffalo NAS box and after that they can't see the data anymore. Luckily the data was still there and undamaged but it took da
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by wayne_h 14y ago
I once did a RAID data recovery on a system with a high-end Intel raid controller. The controller failed and they sent a new one - only the new one couldn't assemble the raid properly. It turns out that there was a flaw in the logic for wh
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by wayne_h 14y ago
I do RAID data recovery for a living. Customers always think that '2 drives failed at the same time'. Thats not what usually happens. What really happens is that 1 drive fails and the raid does what it supposed to do - it keeps on functioni
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by wayne_h 15y ago
The government wants to raise taxes. (We are already the highest taxed state.) To soften up the voters they will threaten to cut things that are popular. Beaches, Parks, libraries, police, fire.. release the prisoners etc etc.. I say good g
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by wayne_h 15y ago
Its SEO'ers.... A competitor of the dog training business hires an SEO Search Engine Optimiser to increase his business. To do that they post negative reviews of all the competitors. They post fake positive reviews of their client. I have