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Tag Archives: hard drives
Head Crash
Now that I’m back in Wellington, I’ve spent some time going through my boxes of parts relating to my server, and collected all 6 wrecked Seagate hard disks that gave me so much grief last year. My friend @macropiper took … Continue reading
Tagged fail, geek, hard drives, hardware, head crash, seagate
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Enterprise or Consumer Spinning Rust Platters?
I recently wrote about bad hard disks being responsible for impacting array performance negatively after having some consumer grade disks fail in a fashion that impacted performance, but didn’t result in the disk being marked as bad. Since then I’ve … Continue reading
Tagged disks, enterprise, geek, hard drives, RAID, SATA, seagate, western digital
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