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5·2 days agoFair, and I was considering that. This could be reviewed with heuristics and instead of instant bans, apply a review. If the admins don’t respond, then it’s not addressed.
What about putting a delay on the beginning activity of an account? Maybe a 2-4 hour timer on new accounts where their new posts are only available to certain users. Once the account has matured, the restrictions can be lifted.
2·2 days agoMaybe getting in front of it and offering to direct it somehow? It’s still a business, and while growth isn’t the goal, it may help secure funding.
Not that I know, I really am just guessing.
Magic notebook.
Everything I write in it becomes true.
Honestly, I sold an XP media center with Mint on it for $20. I was exceedingly clear on the capabilities
4-packs of 2-TB NVME for $50 on eBay.
Absolutely look like custom bullshit connectors used on custom boxes from the 80s.
2·13 days agoI’m suggesting either using the secure erase utility built into your efi if available or using hdparm and calling secure erase.
https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716
I suggest calling these utilities with no other drives connected.
True, but it’s not clear to me that both drives are exhibiting the behavior and it sounds more like a copy between two drives. I wouldn’t rule it out and do think it is a possibility, but in my professional experience drives fail much more frequently than controllers.
It makes sense to me to test the drives individually, in another system preferably, using smart long test, which is non-destructive. Next test other drives in this system. If there are errors, try changing out the SATA cables, too. If you can shuffle the data off the drives, do so and then try running them through a secure erase in another system. A bad drive should fail the same way in another system.
My other thought for probably not being the controller is that 4TB is a very long time for a sustained transfer to fail on a flakey component. Also, there are no reports of other errors.
Sounds like a bad drive, TBH. Not as much the platters but the electronics.
If you can move all the data off and do a secure erase on it, it will tell you all lot.
1·14 days agoI can’t recommend Mint more. I ran it for years, only switching to Fedora for a newer kernel.
With a+ cert and net+ cert, I have taken 10 years and continuously studied related fields to get to a reasonable pay. I should have done CCNA a long time ago, but never could motivate myself.
The last board suggested with 5 ports would handle 4 drives in raidz2.
This is smaller even. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hRBrxr/asrock-motherboard-970mpro3
I would prefer having the smaller board with the hba and putting 8-10 smaller drives in raidz3. That would give you 6 TB with three drives for failure to prevent loss.
Outside the drives, the cost would be under $200 for the board and the hba.
If you have an old system with two PCI-e 16 ports, then your cost is about $90 before you start buying drives.
I’m doing similar with a DDR3 system and spinning 1 TB disks. It’s fast enough to serve video streams.
Ok, so if you want to do a bunch of drives in a box:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FhPzK8/gigabyte-mw50-sv0-atx-lga2011-3-motherboard-mw50-sv0
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/yFWJ7P/crucial-bx500-4-tb-25-solid-state-drive-ct4000bx500ssd1
However, that’s expensive. I would go with spinning disks.
If you want to bring the cost down more,
You can drive the price down more by buying a used system.
The pile of SSDs will be easiest to stuff into a box.
You will need to get creative with cooling.
That was the joke, actually.
I’ll go way back and wow people with mayonnaise.
I second reviewing your XMP settings. I have seen instability with more aggressive profiles.
You can try running any built in diagnostics or you could use memtest86+. It appears to work on UEFI systems.
Tired that. Still got more work. Eventually I had a 3 day process down to half an hour, since the actual process was super inefficient. The company was restructuring and my coworkers were trying to avoid having their jobs automated. It all resolved by outsourcing, which was funny because the tasks only required 5-6 people, had 18 originally, and was called a win for being ‘global’.