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Richard MacCutchan26-Feb-20 2:31

Richard MacCutchan

26-Feb-20 2:31

Well I'm not going to help y ... uh, oh. Cry | :((

Jörgen Andersson26-Feb-20 2:32

Jörgen Andersson

26-Feb-20 2:32

Doesn't work for me, I'm having 50 posts per page.
but for you he should be gone now. Smile | :)

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musefan26-Feb-20 2:43

musefan

26-Feb-20 2:43

Mine is set to 0 results per page... I don't even know who or what I am replying to right now. I just had a feeling it was something about pages.

OriginalGriff26-Feb-20 2:46

OriginalGriff

26-Feb-20 2:46

Here's one of them!

Oh bugger.

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W∴ Balboos, GHB26-Feb-20 4:21

W∴ Balboos, GHB

26-Feb-20 4:21

You must have known the whole OP was about getting you to post something - anything.

Did it work?

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OriginalGriff26-Feb-20 4:30

OriginalGriff

26-Feb-20 4:30

No, I spent the morning dismantling the car to fit my new hands free kit - only to reverse polarity it, make it go "foom!", and emit smoke ... D'Oh! | :doh:

The old one was built into the head unit, but that failed and I'm refitting the original sound system that came with the car - which doesn't have bluetooth, hence the hands free.

Replacement ordered, will be here tomorrow ... wiring corrected already ...

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Nagy Vilmos26-Feb-20 4:22

Nagy Vilmos

26-Feb-20 4:22

I'll get you next time!

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Richard Deeming26-Feb-20 4:24

Richard Deeming

26-Feb-20 4:24

Aha! I've worked out your secret identity[^]! Big Grin | :-D

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Nelek26-Feb-20 3:52

Nelek

26-Feb-20 3:52

Next time say nothing, just post them, do a screenshot and then, post a "YES, we did it" with the link to the screenshot (to avoid the "no pic no happen" answers)

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OriginalGriff26-Feb-20 4:32

OriginalGriff

26-Feb-20 4:32

"Google Calendar", "New reminder", "Post at CP", "Repeats every hour".

That should fix it ... Laugh | :laugh:

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That's interesting

lopatir26-Feb-20 0:35

lopatir

26-Feb-20 0:35

Reading the daily news article about SSD reliability.

Quote:
While this is an important and useful study, for many of us hard drives will remain primary storage for decades to come. While they are a little less reliable, and use more power, their cost per bit can't be beat.

I didn't know HDD were [measured?] less reliable than SSD. Hmmm.
My own machines have pairs of SSD's - one as a mirror (not raid, I do it manual) coz I thought it was t'other way around (HDD more reliable).

Anyway glad I future proofed and went all SSD - now see it's an even better decision than first thought.

Also noticed on Amazon the 256 G m2 SSD was $40 more then the 512 G.
- curious if caused by entry level laptop demand or losing interest in manufacturing smaller?
...lowest $/G still seems to be around 2TB - still with that quite a large $/G jump from 2T to 4T

6T spinners are cheaper than rocks (incase you're looking at paving your driveway etc),
... how cheap per GB can spinners get?

after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!

den2k8826-Feb-20 0:54

den2k88

26-Feb-20 0:54

Current generation HDDs have exceptionally high density of data, that clashes with the inherent imprecision of high speed electromechanical systems.

Yet 6TB in a 3.5" format for 200€ or less are quite unbeatable. They are the modern equivalent of DAT tapes in most scenarios.

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Cp-Coder26-Feb-20 0:58

Cp-Coder

26-Feb-20 0:58

In my experience a good quality spinner (like the Western Digital Black series) is not only more reliable than most SSDs, but when they fail, the data can in most cases be recovered by running chkdsk. When SSDs fail, they tend to fail utterly. In other words nothing can be recovered.

I use SSDs for the speed, but I keep my system drive well backed up by regularly taking an image of the drive (using Macrium Reflect) and I keep my data drive well backed up manually. I keep the backups on an external WD Black spinner.

modified 26-Feb-20 7:10am.

CPallini26-Feb-20 1:34

CPallini

26-Feb-20 1:34

In my experience, HDDs are very, very reliable.

dandy7226-Feb-20 5:37

26-Feb-20 5:37

...unless "Seagate" is written anywhere on that drive.

CPallini26-Feb-20 6:51

CPallini

26-Feb-20 6:51

Nahhh, I suppose there is one (or even a couple of) Seagate in the bunch of my very very (very) reliable hard disks. Big Grin | :-D

Hard disks simply didn't fail, in my experience. I have many of them, and some are pretty dated.

dandy7226-Feb-20 9:00

26-Feb-20 9:00

I can realistically only speak for myself. I've only ever owned maybe 8 Seagate drives. Right now I'd say at least 5 are dead, and I can't bring myself to place much faith in the remaining ones.

Every other drive I've ever had (50+, at least), with few exceptions, is mostly Western Digital, and I don't think there's a single one of them I've stopped using because it died. Plenty have been retired because they're now so small they're no longer worth using in any machine - but they were still working the last time they were hooked up to a system.

Michael Martin26-Feb-20 13:36

Michael Martin

26-Feb-20 13:36

dandy72 wrote:
I can realistically only speak for myself. I've only ever owned maybe 8 Seagate drives. Right now I'd say at least 5 are dead, and I can't bring myself to place much faith in the remaining ones.

Been using Seagate since back in the 90's when they were Maxtor, been rock solid. Only issues I've had have been Desktop Barracuda drives running 24/7 for 3.5 - 5 years in a FreeNAS box and they started reporting dodgy sectors. Replace and they keep running.BR>

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dandy7227-Feb-20 3:13

27-Feb-20 3:13

At one point in time they were okay. "The 90s" started 30 years ago.

Michael Martin27-Feb-20 10:49

Michael Martin

27-Feb-20 10:49

dandy72 wrote:
At one point in time they were okay. "The 90s" started 30 years ago.

And I've using them almost exclusively since then, I think it was 1993. I didn't use them once or twice in the 90's.

SSD's I pretty much use Samsung, but not enough time has passed to know if I've chosen good yet.

Jörgen Andersson26-Feb-20 20:18

Jörgen Andersson

26-Feb-20 20:18

Well, that's anecdotal evidence vs statistics.

In an earlier part of my life I worked as a network tech.
My experience was that it didn't matter to much what the brand was, but rather the production batch. Whenever a couple of drives bought at the same time (and therefore usually the same batch) broke down you could expect the rest to break within a short period of time.

I learned that whenever I ordered a server, I would never fully equip the RAID, but rather buy a few drives from several different brands and shops.

There's some nice info on drive reliability from google here: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf[^]
But they don't disclose anything on brands. But that info you get from Backblaze:
2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model[^]
2019 Update on Hard Drive Failure Rates: Seeing More Failures[^]
My takeaway from those stats differ a bit from what might seem obvious. I'd say it's model dependent rather than brand dependent

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dandy7227-Feb-20 3:21

27-Feb-20 3:21

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Whenever a couple of drives bought at the same time (and therefore usually the same batch) broke down you could expect the rest to break within a short period of time.

I heard that too. Despite that, when I buy drives for myself here at home, I buy them in sets of 3 for my NAS (one live, one offline backup, one off-site backup). I can't say I've ever had any such issue (multiple drives failing at roughly the same time). I've been doing this starting with 2TB drives, 3, 4, 6, 8 and now 10TB drives.

That being said, this does mean there's only one of them running 24/7, and the other two are only being used for the duration of a backup update (one once a week, the other once a month, then they get rotated). So they get used very differently.

Jörgen Andersson27-Feb-20 4:21

Jörgen Andersson

27-Feb-20 4:21

Yes, I'm definitely referring to drives with same or similar runtimes

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