catloaf

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

RAID is more likely to fail than a single disk. You have the chance of single-disk failure, multiplied by the number of disks, plus the chance of controller failure.

This is poorly phrased. A raid with a bad disk is not failed, it is degraded. The entire array is not more likely to fail than a single disk.

Yes, you are more likely to experience a disk failure, but like you said, only because you have more disks in the first place. (However, there is also the phenomenon where, after replacing a failed disk, the additional load during the rebuild might cause a second disk to fail, which is why you should replace failed disks as soon as possible. And have backups.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

With software raid, there is no controller to fail.

Well, that's not strictly true, because you still have a SATA/SAS controller, HBA, backplane, or whatever, but they're more easily replaceable. (Unless it's integrated in the motherboard, but then it's not a separate component to fail.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

No, they mean that if the controller fails, you have to get a compatible controller, not just any controller. And that usually means getting another of the exact same controller. Hopefully they're still available to buy somewhere. And hopefully it's got a matching firmware version.

But if you're using mdraid? Yeah just slap those drives on any disk controller and bring it up in the OS, no problem.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Okay but how was the accuracy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I do, but I also never have reason to refer to him.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (27 children)

God forbid a programmer be compensated for their labor.

I mean yeah, subscription services are shitty, but what's wrong with lifetime purchases?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ask, sure. Sue, maybe. Commandeer extensions, absolutely not.

If they don't like people using their open source project, they shouldn't offer that license.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, through Namecheap. Right now it's just hosting my personal site on WordPress, but I'm going to switch that soon due to Matt Mullenweg's drama or just take it down entirely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They were one of the first players, especially for business.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nor in person. Just let people be, right? If it doesn't harm, let people do it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Wikipedia article says historically wet nursing was available to all social classes, so that doesn't really jive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's because your PC is faster than the drive. You fill the cache quickly, then wait while it writes to flash. It's not a big deal.

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