'tis but a speck of dust in a vast ocean
Can you tell me why you go for 2^12 but then choose (2^16)-1 as an alternative? Wouldn't that create alignment issues?
Aren't there added concerns of batch-faults like impurities in the metals used in production that will ruin a whole set of drives, when buying in bulk? Also, if they're all shipped in the same package, and that package suffers abuse, won't that ruin all or most of the drives?
If you like that one, how about "I have a bunch of 6 year olds hooked up in my basement" to refer to an old array of disks on a dedicated server.
I've dd copied all my playstation 2 disks to a NAS, because they were getting old. Running those games on the ps2 off an external disk is a lot more effort than just putting the disc in though, so they are still my main goto
I've noticed all my seagate drives have millions or errors, even the new ones, almost immediately after buying them. Western Digitals had zero for that same SMART category. I thought it was the fact that they tried to shingle the magnetic particles or something, leading to a lot of recoverable errors by design. Should I be sending all my seagate drives back for warranty?
Free? Encrypt it, split it into chunks and upload onto something like pastebin. Or, if you're not scared of the law, straight up turn that stuff into torrents so everyone else can enjoy it too
Free? Encrypt it, split it into chunks and upload onto something like bitbucket. Or, if you're not scared of the law, straight up turn that stuff into torrents so everyone else can enjoy it too
Next week they'll have a similar one about the second letter of your name and the first and last digit of your social security number