It lives. Rebuild was successful, so it's back to normal...or at least back to fixing the original screwed up.-Stoic Joker (January 08, 2012, 08:15 AM)
It lives. Rebuild was successful, so it's back to normal...or at least back to fixing the original screwed up.-Stoic Joker (January 08, 2012, 08:15 AM)
I feel for you... And yet again, we see why we estimate the time it will take in minutes, and budget hours... :-\-Renegade (January 08, 2012, 08:18 AM)
Some days I just hate computers...-Renegade (January 08, 2012, 08:18 AM)
But I still got a thing for RAID ... That will take a while to pryme away from. *Shrug* hehe
But I still got a thing for RAID ... That will take a while to pryme away from. *Shrug* hehe
Maybe you should join a support group? :huh: :P-40hz (January 08, 2012, 08:45 AM)
Guess Ubuntu is safer than street-racing-Shades (January 08, 2012, 10:27 AM)
But I still got a thing for RAID ... That will take a while to pryme away from. *Shrug* hehe
Maybe you should join a support group? :huh: :P-40hz (January 08, 2012, 08:45 AM)
Aren't those just Redundant Arrays of Independent(ly damaged) People? That would make the best first step to not go.-Stoic Joker (January 08, 2012, 09:55 AM)
But I still got a thing for RAID ... That will take a while to pryme away from. *Shrug* hehe
Maybe you should join a support group? :huh: :P-40hz (January 08, 2012, 08:45 AM)
Aren't those just Redundant Arrays of Independent(ly damaged) People? That would make the best first step to not go.-Stoic Joker (January 08, 2012, 09:55 AM)
For your information, that's independently 'deluded' - not 'damaged' Buster! ;D-40hz (January 08, 2012, 02:57 PM)
Remind again why RAID is so awesome? ;)
- Oshyan-JavaJones (January 21, 2012, 04:55 PM)
So...dip me in white chocolate fondue and call me Noob! Whatcha gonna do?Lickety-spit? :P-40hz (January 21, 2012, 05:44 PM)
So...dip me in white chocolate fondue and call me Noob! Whatcha gonna do?Lickety-spit? :P-40hz (January 21, 2012, 05:44 PM)
-cranioscopical (January 21, 2012, 05:53 PM)
But it's rather baffling/annoying that a brand new drive would go poof that quickly.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 08:33 AM)
But it's rather baffling/annoying that a brand new drive would go poof that quickly.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Have a relative that holds a BEE (from MIT no less!) tell me the problem with electronic devices is they can suffer from what he called "infant mortality." He said if you can (1) power up an electrical device, (2) run it for 72 hours under full load (3) then shut it down and let it cool off overnight (3) then bring it back up successfully - it will almost always (99.9999%) run without problems for the next six to eight years. That's because most electrical engineering defects manifest themselves very early on. And about 75% are heat-related, so they won't start to show up until the device has been running several hours.
The basic rule of thumb seems to be: If it's gonna die, it's gonna die shortly after you get it - otherwise it will die no sooner than one month out-of-warranty. So look for the longest warranty you can find. (Not that it will matter. Because hardly anybody ever registers or remembers where they put their receipt.)-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
According to my genius cousin, it seems that the way they move product these days, there's no longer any such thing as real burn-in testing. Unless it's being sold at MIL-SPEC premium pricing, what little QC there is tests the major components of a device or assembly very briefly. If the little ogre powers up, and a signal is detected on whatever I/O ports it has, it's considered "good." After that, it's off to antistatic bagging for shipping.
The manufacturers do a risk assessment, calculate the projected failure rate from actual returns, adjust the warranty as necessary, and budget for the inevitable replacements. So it's purely a lottery and numbers game. It's sort of like the old rule for buying a truck - it's either: (a) expensive, but top quality and going to last - or (b) inexpensive to buy and cheap and easy to fix.
Most electronic manufacturers opt for 'cheap to replace under warranty' because it's more cost effective for them to eat the occasional bad egg (and write it off on their taxes) than it is to properly and extensively test each individual product. And in the case of something as complex as a microprocessor (with its meeel-yuns and meeel-yuns of transistors and countless potential electrical states) - it's not even possible to completely test them any more. Or isn't if you don't have 20 years to wait for the tests to complete.-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
P.S. There's a 9mm Glock Tactical in the top drawer behind the pretzel bag if you need it. Just don't point it at yourself or the dog. ;)-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
loaded with hollow-points-kyrathaba (January 22, 2012, 03:45 PM)
loaded with hollow-points-kyrathaba (January 22, 2012, 03:45 PM)
(Well of course) Do they still make another kind of bullet? ;) :D-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 03:53 PM)
Yes, because the very last thing you want to have in a shooting is a second version of what happened... ;)-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 06:19 PM)
Zoiks! That's a hell of a round. But I'd rather the hollow-point, as they're designed to frag and stop in the first target. It's safer for the Innocent bystanders that way. Chances are you'll have to asses the field of fire in a split second, so it's best not to take chances with overkill.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 10:23 PM)
Zoiks! That's a hell of a round. But I'd rather the hollow-point, as they're designed to frag and stop in the first target. It's safer for the Innocent bystanders that way. Chances are you'll have to asses the field of fire in a split second, so it's best not to take chances with overkill.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 10:23 PM)
Perhaps I should have pointed out that the second, (12g - causes very large recoil and makes a really big mess of things ;D ), doesn't go in the first, (1851 Navy Colt - lot of fun, bit slow to reload).-4wd (January 22, 2012, 11:17 PM)
Cable?Controller fritzing? Mechanical/electrical differences between different drive modelsand manufacturers?(My guess.)-40hz (January 23, 2012, 06:09 PM)
Critical: WD Caviar Black, Caviar Green, and Caviar Blue hard drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis, as they are not designed for, nor tested in, these specific types of RAID applications. For all Business Critical RAID applications, please consider WD’s Enterprise Hard Drives that are specifically designed with RAID-specific, time-limited error recovery (TLER), are tested extensively in 24x7 RAID applications, and include features like enhanced RAFF technology and thermal extended burn-in testing.-WD Support
FWIW :)
Does anyone understand the differences in the Western Digital drives? (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=25743.msg237556#msg237556) mention WDTLER.exe and WDIDLE.exe if you can find them.-4wd (January 26, 2012, 05:38 PM)
I feel for you... And yet again, we see why we estimate the time it will take in minutes, and budget hours... :-\
Some days I just hate computers...-Renegade (January 08, 2012, 08:18 AM)