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

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

  2. 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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    Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
  3. 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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    Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
  4. 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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    double penetration; //ouch