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Your Hard Drive Lies to You

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the say-it-ain't-so dept.

fenderdb writes "Brad Fitzgerald of LiveJournal fame has written a utility and a quick article on how all hard drives from the consumer level to the highest level 'enterprise' grade SCSI and SATA drives do not obey the fsync() function. Manufacturers are blatantly sacrificing integrity in favor of scoring higher on 'pure speed' performance benchmarking."

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  1. Hardly a new thing... by |>>? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since when do computers do what you mean?

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    1. Re:Hardly a new thing... by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must be new here. Computers always do what you tell them to do in the command line. What, you're using a gui? Well that's your fault then.

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    2. Re:Hardly a new thing... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 5, Funny
      Computers always do what you tell them to do in the command line.

      They sure do.

      $ rm -rf * .o
      $ ls -a
      . ..
      $
      FUCK!!!!!

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    3. Re:Hardly a new thing... by pyropunk51 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I really hate this damned machine!
      I wish that I could sell it.
      It never does quite what I want,
      But only what I tell it!

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    4. Re:Hardly a new thing... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is there a difference? ;-)

      I don't know about you, but when I mod slashdot, I'm almost always drunk or stoned. Really, it's the only way to fit in.

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  2. What's this? by binaryspiral · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hard drive manufacturers screwing over customers? Why, who would have thought?

    1 billion bytes equals 1 gigabyte - since when?

    Dropped MTBF right after reducing the 3 year standard wrty to a 1 year - good timing.

    Now this?

    Wow what a track record of consumer loving...

    1. Re:What's this? by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Funny
      2^30 bytes = 1 gibibyte.

      AaARaaGGgHHhh! I simply loathe the IEC binary prefix names.

      Kibibits sounds like dog food.

      "Kibibits, Kibibits, I'm gonna get me some Kibibits..."

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      Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
  3. ...and Statistics. by Kaenneth · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, do you think someone typed "Nuclear weapons are being developed by the government of Iraq.^H^Hn." just before the power went out?

  4. In other news.... by ToraUma · · Score: 5, Funny

    96% of Livejournal users replied, "What's a hard drive? Is that like a modem?"