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The Dirty Ticking Time Bomb of Computing is About to Come Out!
Vanity
| 8/4/2021
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Posted on 08/04/2021 3:34:04 AM PDT by CptnObvious
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To: ifinnegan
Sometimes, people with limited tech knowledge can read something and panic.
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:24:57 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
To: Drago
Mechanical failure in standard hard disks (bad bearings. etc.) and SSD “write-cycles” will probably kill your drive before it runs out of “spare bits”. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME!
Was this guy ranting about the availability of free disk space???!?
I couldn't penetrate his concern, but if that is his problem, ..... well, I just don't know what to say. Imagine, back in the day, this guy's panic when one of his floppy drives filled up!!! lol
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:27:24 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
To: ifinnegan
Get a spare auxiliary hard drive. Toshiba makes small ones which are about the size of a cell phone and easily plug in to your computer via a cable and have a large amount of storage space. They have them in the range of several tera-bites. Just a thought in case you want to back up our data.
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:27:39 AM PDT
by
saintgermaine
(Saintgermain the time traveler)
To: CptnObvious
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:29:21 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: Chode
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:30:17 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: CptnObvious
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:32:39 AM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:34:08 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
To: know.your.why
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:35:24 AM PDT
by
Codeflier
(Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
To: CptnObvious
I’ve lost a few hard drives - some were accessible via CDROM/USB apps to be able to recover data...but I back up all important files - some of them via USB as I modify them.
Why make a fact of life (shit wears out) sound like a crisis?
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:37:27 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
To: srmanuel
Assuming this is a real issue, pay attention to your devices and you want have a problem.. It is a real issue (despite the dramatic original post) and it's been known for decades. Anyone who's ever watched a drive repair or disk optimization program run "back in the day" saw when a spot on a hdd got marked as bad and relocated to a spare.
I still remember when it happened on 20Mb MFM drives in my old 80286. Consumers just don't see it happening because it's automatically handled by the hardware itself now.
There's also Smart H.D.D. which quickly and easily shows all the stats on a HDD/SDD/nVME drive you'd ever want to know.
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:40:33 AM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: CptnObvious
Sounds just like Y2K all over again, except this time there is NO escape. Unless you replace your drives when they start getting worn out. Like you do with everything else you own.
What a load. More fear pron.
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:40:46 AM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: CptnObvious
It does not matter what type of disk it is. Whether it is a Hard Drive, Solid State Drive, or even the new NVMe Drives. THE TICKING TIME BOMB IS THERE. And thats true for every other object in the universe. Everything has an expiration date.
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:43:08 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: CptnObvious
I can understand your fear. Just make sure you check and refill the oil in your hard disk every 3 months and the spares won’t dry out and go bad.
To: CptnObvious
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posted on
08/04/2021 4:45:38 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(PRES. BIDEN: You're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.)
To: Codeflier
Don’t defrag SSDs. My xfs filesystem doesn't ever need defragging anyway.
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posted on
08/04/2021 5:09:35 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: CptnObvious
What’s a “disk”? I’m 78 and vaguely remember them. I get by w/2 little 1TB circuit boards.
To: Lazamataz
I almost impulse bought one. I’m surprised I resisted.
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posted on
08/04/2021 5:23:32 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ifinnegan
Long ago I took a SCSI programming course for work. The instructor asked the question, “When to you back up your hard drive.” The room was silent for a while and then he answered his own question with, “Every day after a crash.”
To: CptnObvious
I didn’t realize that watches and smartphones had disk drives. They must be really, really small.
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posted on
08/04/2021 5:29:31 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Fake news, fake election, fake president.)
To: Lazamataz
Spare sectors.
They are built into the low-level drive formatting. Your hard drive swaps it in, when it see a failing sector.
OSes do another level on top.
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posted on
08/04/2021 5:38:06 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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