I use software RAID (mdadm), and I had a transient issue on a RAID5 that marked 2 drives (of 3) as dirty and the whole thing quit working. It wasn't fun, but it was not particularly hard either. Just adding ---assume-clean when re-adding the disk worked just fine.
Self-discharge of brand new flash memory that only has one write cycle is easily going to be 5-10 years. That's a better track record than some optical media. And all you have to do is plug it in to a computer for a while once every 5 years to refresh.
At under $5 for 4GB, it doesn't hurt to always use SD cards that have zero write cycles anyway on a paying gig. In that case, the SD card is already trash - at least it can be put to use as a backup.
After that follow the best practices for backing up
SD cards are cheap. If you're a photographer, stick to 2GB or 4GB cards and use 2 or more per shoot. Keep them forever, because you included the cost of them (next to nothing) in your fee. Sure, the longevity isn't there, but it's a cheap no-effort backup. And you could hold hundreds in a small off-site box.
Are you kidding? You don't wait on the insurance reimbursement. You get out there and buy the equipment with 1-Day shipping. At least if we're talking about vitally important personal data.
What about shutting down your account without notice? I'm pretty sure both sets of terms allow for that, and there's no guarantee that there won't be a mistaken or malicious reason for your account to get shut down at the worst possible time.
While you can get a data-rated safe that can keep drives at a cool enough temperature for longer, you also aren't guaranteed that the building will be a total loss. A fire two rooms away may get hot, but not hot enough to kill a drive in a standard fireproof safe.
RAID5 has been deprecated for small RAIDs ever since 1TB drives were around. Regardless of the filesystem. Minimum of RAID6 or RAID10 for large drives, because there's too many bits in one failed drive to rebuild without another drive going.
Whole manufacturers are not a safe bet, but product lines are. Just look at the stats for Backblaze's quarterly report. Sure, your environment might be more/less harsh, but manufacturing defects are a bigger problem.
Based on their report, there are definitely some great HGST. And some really bad WD Red. My Toshiba drives in my home RAID are going strong, but looks like they are having closer to 4% failure rate overall (though that is more recent, they had much lower stats when I bought).
This hit me yesterday after using Dropbox for the first time in a couple years. Just says "We noticed that you recently tried to log in to Dropbox with a password that you haven't changed in a while. Your old password expired and you'll need to create a new one to log in." No mention of any sort of breach or compromise
If you see 2 letters in caps, you should assume ISO 3166 country abbreviations (2-letter) not ccTLD. In that case, the same country, but not in every case.
They were the stupid ones that gave two completely different product lines the exact same name.
The reason it failed is that cheap multi-touch started hitting PCs left and right. If you can get a 27" all-in-one computer with 10-point multi-touch for under $1,000 there is no reason to spend $10,000 to solve your problem - all you need is custom mounting. The rest of the features just weren't compelling enough to spend so much more.
Uber and Lyft may be "similar" to taxis, but they're exactly the same service as a limo service. And they already comply with all of those rules.
Taxis drive around and provide ad-hoc rides when they're not out on a fare - which is what most of the regulations apply to. That's the entirely different category. Limousines services are not subject to taxi rules either. Taxis and ride-sharing both provide transportation, grocery and restaurants both often provide prepared food (grocery stores also sell packaged foods, but that's beside the point).
Also, even though the infringed on Nintento's copyrights, they built a popular app and it didn't cost Nintendo anything. They should offer to buy the company and app for a small price (something not neither insulting nor outrageously high...
We don't strictly know that they didn't. Under an NDA, they likely wouldn't be allowed to say why they took down the links - but they would definitely have to and this is a way that would definitely generate a ton of PR. If they were being bought out, this would not be a bad way of going about it. On the other hand, people stumble on better plans by accident than usually happen by intention.
We're lucky they're only trying to void a warranty. If they get any ideas, you'll next seem them suing under DMCA anti-circumvention for installing custom kernels.
You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright a compilation. It's likely there are a handful of fake listings in your average yellow pages just to ensure that they can prove copying.
The same happens with fake streets on GPS to prove when maps are copied. I won't do the research for you, but there's plenty of case law out there.
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I use software RAID (mdadm), and I had a transient issue on a RAID5 that marked 2 drives (of 3) as dirty and the whole thing quit working. It wasn't fun, but it was not particularly hard either. Just adding ---assume-clean when re-adding the disk worked just fine.
Self-discharge of brand new flash memory that only has one write cycle is easily going to be 5-10 years. That's a better track record than some optical media. And all you have to do is plug it in to a computer for a while once every 5 years to refresh.
At under $5 for 4GB, it doesn't hurt to always use SD cards that have zero write cycles anyway on a paying gig. In that case, the SD card is already trash - at least it can be put to use as a backup.
I've seen the same thing on both sides this year.
But they're paying for that placement. It's different. /sarcasm
Apple: now selling commodity products at luxury prices.
Did you miss something?
After that follow the best practices for backing up
SD cards are cheap. If you're a photographer, stick to 2GB or 4GB cards and use 2 or more per shoot. Keep them forever, because you included the cost of them (next to nothing) in your fee. Sure, the longevity isn't there, but it's a cheap no-effort backup. And you could hold hundreds in a small off-site box.
Are you kidding? You don't wait on the insurance reimbursement. You get out there and buy the equipment with 1-Day shipping. At least if we're talking about vitally important personal data.
What about shutting down your account without notice? I'm pretty sure both sets of terms allow for that, and there's no guarantee that there won't be a mistaken or malicious reason for your account to get shut down at the worst possible time.
While you can get a data-rated safe that can keep drives at a cool enough temperature for longer, you also aren't guaranteed that the building will be a total loss. A fire two rooms away may get hot, but not hot enough to kill a drive in a standard fireproof safe.
2. you need to know how to make the extracted disk a 1-disk RAID array for recovery (may be anything from trivial to very difficult)
If it's a proper RAID1, just clone the disk and set up a 2-disk RAID again.
RAID5 has been deprecated for small RAIDs ever since 1TB drives were around. Regardless of the filesystem. Minimum of RAID6 or RAID10 for large drives, because there's too many bits in one failed drive to rebuild without another drive going.
Whole manufacturers are not a safe bet, but product lines are. Just look at the stats for Backblaze's quarterly report. Sure, your environment might be more/less harsh, but manufacturing defects are a bigger problem.
Based on their report, there are definitely some great HGST. And some really bad WD Red. My Toshiba drives in my home RAID are going strong, but looks like they are having closer to 4% failure rate overall (though that is more recent, they had much lower stats when I bought).
If they're not notifying people then it's a disaster
What's a disaster is not revoking login tokens for PCs/phones if there's any chance any of those could have been unauthorized.
This hit me yesterday after using Dropbox for the first time in a couple years. Just says "We noticed that you recently tried to log in to Dropbox with a password that you haven't changed in a while. Your old password expired and you'll need to create a new one to log in." No mention of any sort of breach or compromise
If you see 2 letters in caps, you should assume ISO 3166 country abbreviations (2-letter) not ccTLD. In that case, the same country, but not in every case.
They were the stupid ones that gave two completely different product lines the exact same name.
The reason it failed is that cheap multi-touch started hitting PCs left and right. If you can get a 27" all-in-one computer with 10-point multi-touch for under $1,000 there is no reason to spend $10,000 to solve your problem - all you need is custom mounting. The rest of the features just weren't compelling enough to spend so much more.
Isn't it Google that powers the "answer this survey question to gain access to this news article" thing? I swear I remember seeing their logo on it.
Uber and Lyft may be "similar" to taxis, but they're exactly the same service as a limo service. And they already comply with all of those rules.
Taxis drive around and provide ad-hoc rides when they're not out on a fare - which is what most of the regulations apply to. That's the entirely different category. Limousines services are not subject to taxi rules either. Taxis and ride-sharing both provide transportation, grocery and restaurants both often provide prepared food (grocery stores also sell packaged foods, but that's beside the point).
They're competing in the same way that restaurants and grocery stores are competing. Same end result, different means and methods.
Also, even though the infringed on Nintento's copyrights, they built a popular app and it didn't cost Nintendo anything. They should offer to buy the company and app for a small price (something not neither insulting nor outrageously high...
We don't strictly know that they didn't. Under an NDA, they likely wouldn't be allowed to say why they took down the links - but they would definitely have to and this is a way that would definitely generate a ton of PR. If they were being bought out, this would not be a bad way of going about it. On the other hand, people stumble on better plans by accident than usually happen by intention.
Sadly, that is not how the world works today.
We're lucky they're only trying to void a warranty. If they get any ideas, you'll next seem them suing under DMCA anti-circumvention for installing custom kernels.
You HAVE to press charges against those who rob you
Not strictly true. They could license the rights for $1 + 80% of "donations" if they wanted.
No, not weak at all - unless it's diluted by the water of an Olympic sized swimming pool.
Look closer. They are creating accounts.
You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright a compilation. It's likely there are a handful of fake listings in your average yellow pages just to ensure that they can prove copying.
The same happens with fake streets on GPS to prove when maps are copied. I won't do the research for you, but there's plenty of case law out there.