I'm currently on a Samsung 840 EVO SSD as my system drive, with a 2TB WD Green, a 3TB HGST Deskstar NAS, and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 for storage.
The SSD has around 1 year of actual power-on time, the storage disks each have around 1.5-2 years of power-on time. No failures reported by SMART so far.
You could say I'm sort hedging my bets by not sticking with a single vendor. The SSD will probably be the first disk to go, due to the firmware issues on the 840 EVO drives. It's been good so me so far, though.
Yes, there was a 20 minute delay on communications with the outside world. I believe they were also only provided with whatever entertainment they brought along with them, no new stuff brought in.
And if so, do you drive more reckless now that you know that you're more likely to survive a crash because of seatbelt and airbag? Most likely not. Your car is still a wreck if you crash.
Actually, several studies have shown that the number of accidents and fatalities tend to drop when new safety equipment is made mandatory, but starts to rise again a while later, when people get complacent.
For instance, when ABS brakes were introduced on a significant number of new cars sold, the accident rate dropped because people were still driving as if they didn't have ABS. Some years later, everyone had gotten used to the shorter stopping distances and started driving much close to the cars in front, so the accident rate went up again.
It's HGST for me, unless I see some extremely compelling evidence of higher reliability from another manufacturer. I've had Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Samsung and host of other brands die on me, but never a HGST drive.
Probably one of the best options for a NAS is the HP Microserver. It's a full PC in a small form factor with 4 disk slots, it'll run any OS you'd like. Surprisingly inexpensive and lean on power usage, too.
One of those with FreeNAS or Rockstor, and you're ready to go.
And it's not like data backup is the only use for a deposit box. Keep all your important papers and other things in there too, everything that cannot be kept digitally. The bank is a hell of a lot less likely to burn down or float away than your house is.
It may seem like common sense to a lot of us, but I'm sure someone out there is going to go "oh yeah, good idea!"
Keeping a disk in the trunk of your car and rotating them out regularly is a good idea, but it depends on the climate where you live. If it's generally nice and temperate, no problem. But if you live in an area that gets either very hot or very cold, that'll kill a hard drive right quick, especially if you don't watch out for condensation.
I appreciate the "my car is almost always with me" reasoning, though:-)
Safety deposit box is a good idea, too. Somewhat more effort involved, but of course that trade-off depends on how important your data is.
Well, that depends on whether you want to restore everything right now, or if you can pick and choose to only restore the most critical files first, and let the rest run in the background for a couple of weeks.
For me personally, my Google Drive backup is the last resort if both my PC and my NAS go tits-up at the same time, in a lightning strike or natural disaster of some sort. In that case, I don't need all of my backed up data restored instantly, I can start with the most important personal documents and leave the bulk data for later.
Of course, I'm only backing up personal documents and my music collection, if you're backing up major programming projects or something, of course you'll want the whole thing restored as quickly as possible. In that case, an off-site backup somewhere closer with a fatter pipe or a manual weekly disk exchange is probably best. Online backups take a lot less effort, though.
I've got the local copy on my PC, which is manually synced to a NAS and automatically backed up to Google Drive. Probably not 100% ideal, but at ~$10/month for 1TB, I'm quite satisfied.
The fork of the Linux kernel Torvalds distributes contains the "fragmentation" he claims isn't viable—Torvalds' variant of Linux contains proprietary binaries in it. These blobs of code are removed in the fully-free GNU Linux-libre kernel.
Hold up now, mr. FSF.
The kernel that Linus distributes is the Linux kernel, by definition.
The Arch wiki is generally good (except for the outdated articles) and the forums can be very helpful.
But after the tenth or twentieth time your system just goes belly-up because of a borked update, and you have to reboot on a USB stick and manually try to rescue things, you get tired of their bleeding-edge package versions. This latest time, it was because a beta version of the Nvidia driver was marked as the newest stable version in the Arch repos, so Pacman cheerfully proceeded to install it. The end result upon the next reboot was a black screen and my graphics card's fan running at full tilt. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix things, but even rolling back the Nvidia driver and the kernel did nothing.
So I said "fuck it, I've had enough of being a mega-1337 Linux h4xx0r and toying around with Gentoo and Arch", and installed Linux Mint 18. Obviously I had to get used to a new system, and add a few PPAs for various applications where I needed the newest version. But so far, it's been absolutely wonderful. No fuss at all, very straight-forward and fast install process, sensible defaults for most things, very little tweaking needed.
I know there's Manjaro, which is a similarly desktop-oriented distro based on Arch instead of Ubuntu. But I felt like needed a clean break from the whole Arch thing. Besides, with my/home on a separate partition, it's not like I even had to mess around with any significant settings in any applications. Maybe I'll try Manjaro some day.
Tell that to the homosexuals, black people, expecting single mothers, anyone suspected of supporting communism in the bad old days, transsexuals, muslims, native Americans and hundreds of other minorities that have been trampled by bigoted laws and witch hunts.
Have you actually, seriously studied marxism? Because you seem to believe that the tyrannical dictatorships of the USSR etc. were actually marxists. Which they weren't, by any standard.
Maybe the battery can be charged relatively slowly when at home, but have the fluid replaced relatively quickly when out and about? I haven't researched whether that would actually be a possibility, but it could be worth pursuing.
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I'm currently on a Samsung 840 EVO SSD as my system drive, with a 2TB WD Green, a 3TB HGST Deskstar NAS, and a 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 for storage.
The SSD has around 1 year of actual power-on time, the storage disks each have around 1.5-2 years of power-on time. No failures reported by SMART so far.
You could say I'm sort hedging my bets by not sticking with a single vendor. The SSD will probably be the first disk to go, due to the firmware issues on the 840 EVO drives. It's been good so me so far, though.
That's actually quite impressive, I hadn't thought about that.
Yes, there was a 20 minute delay on communications with the outside world. I believe they were also only provided with whatever entertainment they brought along with them, no new stuff brought in.
And if so, do you drive more reckless now that you know that you're more likely to survive a crash because of seatbelt and airbag? Most likely not. Your car is still a wreck if you crash.
Actually, several studies have shown that the number of accidents and fatalities tend to drop when new safety equipment is made mandatory, but starts to rise again a while later, when people get complacent.
For instance, when ABS brakes were introduced on a significant number of new cars sold, the accident rate dropped because people were still driving as if they didn't have ABS. Some years later, everyone had gotten used to the shorter stopping distances and started driving much close to the cars in front, so the accident rate went up again.
There is no Backblaze application for *nix, but you can use their B2 storage from any OS: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/c...
Still, I wish they would hurry up and port the proper app to *nix.
It's HGST for me, unless I see some extremely compelling evidence of higher reliability from another manufacturer. I've had Maxtor, Seagate, WD, Samsung and host of other brands die on me, but never a HGST drive.
Of course, I've probably jinxed it now.
Probably one of the best options for a NAS is the HP Microserver. It's a full PC in a small form factor with 4 disk slots, it'll run any OS you'd like. Surprisingly inexpensive and lean on power usage, too.
One of those with FreeNAS or Rockstor, and you're ready to go.
AFAIK, Btrfs can do the same thing, ie. spanning data over multiple disks, while keeping each of them individually readiable. Unless I'm mistaken?
And it's not like data backup is the only use for a deposit box. Keep all your important papers and other things in there too, everything that cannot be kept digitally. The bank is a hell of a lot less likely to burn down or float away than your house is.
It may seem like common sense to a lot of us, but I'm sure someone out there is going to go "oh yeah, good idea!"
Keeping a disk in the trunk of your car and rotating them out regularly is a good idea, but it depends on the climate where you live. If it's generally nice and temperate, no problem. But if you live in an area that gets either very hot or very cold, that'll kill a hard drive right quick, especially if you don't watch out for condensation.
I appreciate the "my car is almost always with me" reasoning, though :-)
Safety deposit box is a good idea, too. Somewhat more effort involved, but of course that trade-off depends on how important your data is.
Well, that depends on whether you want to restore everything right now, or if you can pick and choose to only restore the most critical files first, and let the rest run in the background for a couple of weeks.
For me personally, my Google Drive backup is the last resort if both my PC and my NAS go tits-up at the same time, in a lightning strike or natural disaster of some sort. In that case, I don't need all of my backed up data restored instantly, I can start with the most important personal documents and leave the bulk data for later.
Of course, I'm only backing up personal documents and my music collection, if you're backing up major programming projects or something, of course you'll want the whole thing restored as quickly as possible. In that case, an off-site backup somewhere closer with a fatter pipe or a manual weekly disk exchange is probably best. Online backups take a lot less effort, though.
+1 for the 3-2-1 principle.
I've got the local copy on my PC, which is manually synced to a NAS and automatically backed up to Google Drive. Probably not 100% ideal, but at ~$10/month for 1TB, I'm quite satisfied.
Sooo... Coffee and various illegal substances?
I support this way of thinking. New and interesting stuff (and people!) will always keep coming along.
I wouldn't mind a several-thousand-to-effectively-infinite lifespan, as long as I had someone to share it with.
The fork of the Linux kernel Torvalds distributes contains the "fragmentation" he claims isn't viable—Torvalds' variant of Linux contains proprietary binaries in it. These blobs of code are removed in the fully-free GNU Linux-libre kernel.
Hold up now, mr. FSF.
The kernel that Linus distributes is the Linux kernel, by definition.
Linux-Libre is a fork for FSF puritans.
The Arch wiki is generally good (except for the outdated articles) and the forums can be very helpful.
But after the tenth or twentieth time your system just goes belly-up because of a borked update, and you have to reboot on a USB stick and manually try to rescue things, you get tired of their bleeding-edge package versions. This latest time, it was because a beta version of the Nvidia driver was marked as the newest stable version in the Arch repos, so Pacman cheerfully proceeded to install it. The end result upon the next reboot was a black screen and my graphics card's fan running at full tilt. I spent a couple of hours trying to fix things, but even rolling back the Nvidia driver and the kernel did nothing.
So I said "fuck it, I've had enough of being a mega-1337 Linux h4xx0r and toying around with Gentoo and Arch", and installed Linux Mint 18. Obviously I had to get used to a new system, and add a few PPAs for various applications where I needed the newest version. But so far, it's been absolutely wonderful. No fuss at all, very straight-forward and fast install process, sensible defaults for most things, very little tweaking needed.
I know there's Manjaro, which is a similarly desktop-oriented distro based on Arch instead of Ubuntu. But I felt like needed a clean break from the whole Arch thing. Besides, with my /home on a separate partition, it's not like I even had to mess around with any significant settings in any applications. Maybe I'll try Manjaro some day.
I use Facebook to follow all my favorite bands in one place, and to keep tabs on which friends are going to which concerts.
That's about it, everything else on FB can go screw itself.
I feel like you're being way too kind.
Not so much "killed" as "put it out of its misery".
Jill Stein isn't anti-vaccine. She supports mandatory vaccination for preventable diseases.
http://www.snopes.com/is-green...
The right has tolerance
LOL yeah right.
Tell that to the homosexuals, black people, expecting single mothers, anyone suspected of supporting communism in the bad old days, transsexuals, muslims, native Americans and hundreds of other minorities that have been trampled by bigoted laws and witch hunts.
Let's start with you, and see where it leads.
Have you actually, seriously studied marxism? Because you seem to believe that the tyrannical dictatorships of the USSR etc. were actually marxists. Which they weren't, by any standard.
Oh, you're talking about the blatantly faked tweets that Milo put out there, because he is a gigantic pile of fecal matter?
Uh no, nazism is a form of fascism, not socialism.
Learn2ideology.
Maybe the battery can be charged relatively slowly when at home, but have the fluid replaced relatively quickly when out and about? I haven't researched whether that would actually be a possibility, but it could be worth pursuing.