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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I know I’m jaded, but this just feels like astroturfing.

    I totally creeped your profile and some of it feels like paid influencing, only because it comes off formulaic like this:

    What is your favorite toothpaste? Mine is Crest Autoomplete with tooth-reinforcing nanotechnology.

    I doubt you actually are shilling for all these products on the side, and I think you are just trying to share what you like. I’m not beyond imagining that a person could join some service like fiverr and complete tasks for small commissions.

    I personally attempt to avoid forced product placement, and prefer to know when I’m being advertised to. I just saw an ad pushed on me for Copilot in High Potential. Not only can the product not perform as shown, it completely upstaged the main character.









  • Ok my 20 and your 20 are not the same.

    I was saying the large numbers didn’t make sense if you don’t have a large fleet of drives. Say you have ten servers, each with ten drives, and the MTBF is 100 million hours (yay, easy math!). That means that half your drives will have failed after 100k hours, or 11 years of use.

    Some of the sites I have been looking at are saying that this number will increase significantly because 8 hours of daily use would give you about 33 years of use.

    I think I like the annualized failure rate better, but I don’t think either really tell a great picture.

    https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/hard-disk-drive-reliability-and-mtbf-afr-174791en/

    https://ssdcentral.net/hddfail/

    I would rather if the annualized rate were recalculated annually.

    Regarding the controllers, that has been nagging at me this whole conversation. Most SATA peripheral cards do not have heat sinks, but most SAS cards do. The SAS cards at least have a more rugged appearance.