Thanks for that. Checked my drives and they all had it to 8s, but the older set had a low park number and the newer set had a rather high park number. Odd.
I wouldn't exactly call it slow storage. In RAID5 I hit 220mb/s easy with 3 drives.
I haven't tried swapping platters no, however I have run a older hard drive (I wouldn't exactly do it with a good drive) with its lid off in a standard room with no precautions. It was plugged in to a computer and I could read and write to it no issues.
Hell I even prodded the heads (being careful not to make them crash) and it mucked around to find its position again before going back to working normally.
If you are paying megabucks to recover critical data then yep I'm sure it is in a cleanroom.
But a hard drive can operate just fine with its cover open. It doesn't kill the drive at all. Probably not healthy to do, but it does work without any problems.
Have you considered something like Duplicity? Pretty much the same (still uses some of rsync's guts) but compresses and makes it convenient to send off site as well.
I have had 3 RAID 5 arrays over the last 8 or so years (10 drives in total). The newest one was bought this year. Oddly enough not a single disk (all WD Green drives) has failed out of any of them even after running 24/7. One set of disks has been spinning non-stop for over 4 years.
I've retired the oldest one but only because using 4 SATA ports to get 1TB isn't practical any more.
Erm commenting out one or two lines isn't difficult, and you'd just make a patch. Apply to new kernel version, done. Something like this doesn't require maintaining a fork of the kernel. Just applying one tiny patch before compiling the kernel.
Pity this guy isn't in Australia. Apple would be forced to refund or give him both 'seasons' over here without any lawsuit. We have a government organisation called the ACCC to keep companies in line with their advertising.
My old Palm Lifedrive (4 gig microdrive, CompactFlash sized) got bashed around a bit without a single problem. They generally include accelerometers in to the drive its self so if extreme motion is detected it can park the head in a couple of milliseconds resulting in no damage at all.
You are right that if it is spinning and reading data when it gets impacted then you have issues, but if it is parked then it is fine.
Some security researchers awhile ago did break in to a secure door lock with just a pin (not PIN) poked through a LED. Do it properly and you short two contacts which unlock the door without the correct PIN.
What if their guys managed to recreate a ticket from scratch? Control the CA, then when you want to sniff google.com you generate certificates until you generate the exact one Google is using. The certificate's hash doesn't change and they are in the middle.
Not technically difficult, just time consuming. Perhaps their cryptographers have figured out a method to make it faster?
You will know when the NSA has raped you, but the gag order they give you prevents anyone else from knowing. And they'd probably cover all their bases and imply that if you close down then that is telling people that something is wrong.
My Linux HTPC gives very nice crisp text. Web browsing and the console look flawless.
1st comment in your link nails it. You have ClearType on. You didn't specify you are using Windows but I'd bet on it. It is trying to do subpixel rendering and your TV has the pixels aligned differently to what it is expecting hence colour fringing.
Just because others mention the same problem just means they are as clueless as you are.
It is fine to have it on A network, not just THE network.
CAT-6 cable comes in many different colours. Easiest way to implement 2 (or more) networks. And strictly single use computers attached to the secure networks.
Use the deadline scheduler then if you don't want a complicated scheduler. It should be included in most prebuilt kernels.
Funnily enough deadline is recommended for server loads and CFQ is recommended for desktop use. The exact opposite of what you are suggesting.
And I have no doubt my computers can do exactly what you describe just fine without impacting desktop performance at all. Just the other day I was doing network video streaming (1080p over SSHFS), I had 4 virtual machines running, plus Thunderbird, two dozen Chrome tabs, etc... No impact on interactive performance at all.
If you have performance issues, there are steps to diagnose it (unlike on Windows). You do not automatically just blame the scheduler because that is the stupidest argument ever. I notice you don't have a shred of evidence (top output, iostat, etc...) to back up anything you've said.
Btw if a updatedb takes more than about 10 seconds you are doing something horribly wrong. Most distributions have been using mlocate for several years now instead of slocate. updatedb took 5.8 seconds to run just now for me over 6TB of disks.
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Duplicity does at rest compression, and also lets you retrieve a backup from days ago even if you backup daily.
Thanks for that. Checked my drives and they all had it to 8s, but the older set had a low park number and the newer set had a rather high park number.
Odd.
I wouldn't exactly call it slow storage. In RAID5 I hit 220mb/s easy with 3 drives.
I haven't tried swapping platters no, however I have run a older hard drive (I wouldn't exactly do it with a good drive) with its lid off in a standard room with no precautions.
It was plugged in to a computer and I could read and write to it no issues.
Hell I even prodded the heads (being careful not to make them crash) and it mucked around to find its position again before going back to working normally.
You are correct. SLC is faster than MLC. No clue what the parent is on about.
If you are paying megabucks to recover critical data then yep I'm sure it is in a cleanroom.
But a hard drive can operate just fine with its cover open. It doesn't kill the drive at all.
Probably not healthy to do, but it does work without any problems.
Have you considered something like Duplicity? Pretty much the same (still uses some of rsync's guts) but compresses and makes it convenient to send off site as well.
I have nearly the opposite experience.
I have had 3 RAID 5 arrays over the last 8 or so years (10 drives in total). The newest one was bought this year.
Oddly enough not a single disk (all WD Green drives) has failed out of any of them even after running 24/7.
One set of disks has been spinning non-stop for over 4 years.
I've retired the oldest one but only because using 4 SATA ports to get 1TB isn't practical any more.
The article is about Haswell. The GP is about Windows RT.
Get with the conversation.
We are talking about Windows RT here. There are precisely 0 legacy apps.
Exactly. They haven't had to bring out Windows RT tablets for awhile now.
Erm commenting out one or two lines isn't difficult, and you'd just make a patch. Apply to new kernel version, done.
Something like this doesn't require maintaining a fork of the kernel. Just applying one tiny patch before compiling the kernel.
I'm not sure how destructive it would be to other signals. Possibly not as destructive as you might think.
If it is transmitting a pure sine wave then wifi might not care since its clearly not data and isn't changing.
Pity this guy isn't in Australia. Apple would be forced to refund or give him both 'seasons' over here without any lawsuit.
We have a government organisation called the ACCC to keep companies in line with their advertising.
My old Palm Lifedrive (4 gig microdrive, CompactFlash sized) got bashed around a bit without a single problem.
They generally include accelerometers in to the drive its self so if extreme motion is detected it can park the head in a couple of milliseconds resulting in no damage at all.
You are right that if it is spinning and reading data when it gets impacted then you have issues, but if it is parked then it is fine.
It is a important distinction to make.
Some security researchers awhile ago did break in to a secure door lock with just a pin (not PIN) poked through a LED.
Do it properly and you short two contacts which unlock the door without the correct PIN.
What if their guys managed to recreate a ticket from scratch?
Control the CA, then when you want to sniff google.com you generate certificates until you generate the exact one Google is using. The certificate's hash doesn't change and they are in the middle.
Not technically difficult, just time consuming. Perhaps their cryptographers have figured out a method to make it faster?
You will know when the NSA has raped you, but the gag order they give you prevents anyone else from knowing.
And they'd probably cover all their bases and imply that if you close down then that is telling people that something is wrong.
My Linux HTPC gives very nice crisp text. Web browsing and the console look flawless.
1st comment in your link nails it. You have ClearType on. You didn't specify you are using Windows but I'd bet on it.
It is trying to do subpixel rendering and your TV has the pixels aligned differently to what it is expecting hence colour fringing.
Just because others mention the same problem just means they are as clueless as you are.
Remember it is a OLED screen so it uses zero power to display black.
I saw an awful lot of black in it's UI.
Hmm a Kickstarter to cover the legal fees could be quite popular.
Hmm yeah I suppose it could be implemented with carrier pigeons as well.
That goddamn mainstream press.....wait hang on you linked to 2 of them!
It is fine to have it on A network, not just THE network.
CAT-6 cable comes in many different colours. Easiest way to implement 2 (or more) networks.
And strictly single use computers attached to the secure networks.
Use the deadline scheduler then if you don't want a complicated scheduler. It should be included in most prebuilt kernels.
Funnily enough deadline is recommended for server loads and CFQ is recommended for desktop use. The exact opposite of what you are suggesting.
And I have no doubt my computers can do exactly what you describe just fine without impacting desktop performance at all.
Just the other day I was doing network video streaming (1080p over SSHFS), I had 4 virtual machines running, plus Thunderbird, two dozen Chrome tabs, etc...
No impact on interactive performance at all.
If you have performance issues, there are steps to diagnose it (unlike on Windows).
You do not automatically just blame the scheduler because that is the stupidest argument ever.
I notice you don't have a shred of evidence (top output, iostat, etc...) to back up anything you've said.
Btw if a updatedb takes more than about 10 seconds you are doing something horribly wrong.
Most distributions have been using mlocate for several years now instead of slocate. updatedb took 5.8 seconds to run just now for me over 6TB of disks.
A helicopter crash at say mach 1 would be far more entertaining though.
Completely useless and unrealistic, but damn entertaining!