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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:02:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> CC: John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> Subject: Re: RIP - dead harddisk.. On 09/10/2013 08:00 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org> wrote: >> >> Linus> The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my >> Linus> main workstation just died on me. >> >> What model, if you care to share? I figure you'r a perfect storm of >> SSD beating with all your compiles and git pulls, etc. > > So I don't want to necessarily blame the harddisk, since it's just ten > days since I upgraded the rest of my machine, after it worked years in > the previous one. That just makes me go "hmm". As far as I know, all > the fans etc were working fine, but.. > >> And may I suggest that you get TWO of them next time and mirror them, >> for just this case? The SysAdmin in my shouting out here... > > I long ago gave up on doing backups. I have actively moved to a model > where I use replacable machines instead. I've got the stuff I care > about generally on a couple of different machines, and then keys etc > backed up on a separate encrypted USB key. > > So it's inconvenient. Mainly from a timing standpoint. But nothing more. > I won't get any stationary machines without mirrored drives anymore. Storage just isn't reliable enough. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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