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Your Hard Drive Lies to You
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."
T bought this PC recently. There was a C:\ and a D:\. One day both failed at the same time. I opened the case and i saw only One hard disk. Where did the other one go? Who lied to me? The dealer or the hard disk?
How is parent offtopic if it's a direct answer to gramdparent. Who the fuck modded grandparent troll when it's obviously a joke? Are the mods on drugs today, or are they just being mods?
Is there a difference? ;-)
You are right, it was obviously a joke. Slashdot should have a quiz thing before you moderate that shows a bunch of typical posts and makes sure you moderate them right. Show anti-Microsoft and anti-Linux posts of varying quality, and make sure the moderator rates the post and not the content; show funny posts and make sure they get modded funny... sort of like quality control.
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No, I'm not new here. I know what metamoderation is. My point is that many moderators (and meta-moderators) have biases, and if we could filter out the people who automatically mark any pro-Microsoft or anti-Linux post as Troll, then moderation quality would automatically go up. It's basically like a static meta-moderation done before they can start screwing things up.
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