I'm booted into the system right now, and everything works. Thank GOD for RAID10 and thank God I ordered those HGST disks when I did (literally just a few months ago)
one of my old Seagate 4 TB disks has bad sectors, but the SMART overall status is Passed
the beeping was "your array is degraded because one of the disks can't keep up"
all of the disks are marked as "Online", but one of them -- one of my old Seagates -- is marked as "Inconsistent", and the controller logs showed it got 154 ATA transfer errors trying to write sectors to it
at least it wasn't overheating or anything like that -- an old drive dying isn't the end of the world, especially on a RAID10 system
I'll just have Amazon ship me a new drive just like my new HGSTs, and for now I'm basically on RAID-0
I feel pretty okay running RAID-0 for the moment because the HGSTs are new and in very good shape
I ran on just the two Seagates for over a year in RAID-0 :P
heh. I shut up the alarm using the command prompt :D makes me feel leet
arcconf setalarm 1 silence
at first I thought it was a cooling issue, so I set up a 584 cfm (Cubic Feet per Minute; the equivalent in cubic meters per minute is something like 16.5 m^3 per minute) fan, immediately next to the case, with the side door off, blowing into the case
that didn't help, so I thought, "oh boy, what could it be"
the video was displaying correctly so I severely doubted a GPU issue
but then my RAID card's Option ROM BIOS told me it was degraded and I was like, "Aha"
well, my replacement HDD will be here this week, it was fairly expensive, but that's what you get when you buy HDDs without a warranty (the Seagates are enclosure rip-outs)
I guess I'll continue to use my desktop since I'm really not worried about the HGST drives failing, and even if the Seagate drive fails, the Seagates together were one copy of the data and the HGSTs were the other copy
losing the other Seagate at this point will just cost me another $170 or so, which sucks balls but life goes on
I feel like a pilot of one of those 1950-1960s turboprop planes, built with 4 propellers, built like an absolute tank, that could still fly with like 2 propellers shot.
"we lost an engine!" "shut off the fuel. we'll be OK."
the thing is, given a certain fan diameter, as you increase RPMs, the amount of energy required to achieve higher rotational momentum increases (exponentially? or maybe with the square? not sure)
eventually you're going to break the sound barrier with your RPMs and cause all kinds of weird phenomena with the air -- sonic booms, hyperbolic currents, etc
arcconf setalarm has the options on | off | silence, where the latter shuts off the cause for the current alarm but allows future bad events to set it off again, and off permanently turns it off no matter what
Samsung "Pro" series SSDs are my new favorite storage device, period... only problem? to replace my HDDs with SSD equivalent storage would cost... let's see... $11,200 :D
maybe there's something I don't understand about why it's hard to make reliable SATA controllers, but if you can make NAND and CPUs -- extraordinarily complex chunks of semiconductors -- with breathtaking awesome levels of reliability and low failure rates, why the fuck do the SATA controllers go up like.. idk... toasters? or Dodge cars? or some shit
I have a video of the problem here. Please turn your volume down before 47 seconds into the video; the noise is quite loud (the volume in the video isn't even as loud as it sounds in real life from that distance from the case!)
Basically: something in my computer makes a LOUD, constant, very hig...
Would there by some way to pull the power instead of conventional shut down, and recover the contents of ram without loading the operating system upon the next start-up? I'm trying to recover files open on an unresponsive Ubuntu live cd.
There is a guy at work that has one of these (he is gluten intolerant and can't use the one in the lunch room):
That is probably why there are toaster icons in the devices menu.
Hello I had a question which I guess is not appropriate for the main site. So I ask it here.
2 weeks ago I successfully attached and sent a rar file using Gmail that included a .mst file (it was part of the project files of an electromagnetic simulation software). It was my project that I sent to my professor. But NOW I accidentally checked the sent mail and noticed that Gmail says this file can't be downloaded because it contains a virus! The same rar file that was successfully attached and sent 2 weeks ago, can't be attached NOW neither.
The professor's mail was Yahoo mail, and Yahoo doesn't have any problem with this file. Can I be sure that the file (which was sent successfully at that time using Gmail) is received?
question about PC componets selection. I passed around here some days ago and received helpful comments, that's why I am bothering you guys again :P - I would plan to buy a graphics card now and a twin one year down the line - I see that most of the good cards are now 16x PCIe3.0 I was suggested to save money and go "mainstream" with a LGA 1050/55 CPU, but this supports only up to 20 PCIe lanes, meaning that the 2 cards would be used 8x/8x. LGA 2011 supports instead up to 40 lanes. what would be the better choice in your opinion?
I admit my ignorance and ask straight away: what's the point of having a 16x port if "normally" you don't even saturate a 8x? or, turning that around, for what a 16x is useful?
ok, this part I got. but forcing a 16x card to run through a 8x port, doesn't it create a bottleneck? or is said bottleneck easied by the parallel configuration and thus is not noticeable?
I am reading, but if I understand correctly, that only partially anwer my doubt, as they are comparing single card only setups, not single x16 vs 8x/8x
@Federico more than 8x can be used by high-end GPUs on microbenchmarks and certain GPGPU kernels
@Federico I would think buying a R9 280X (or R9 290X if you can afford it) would be more future-proof than buying 780s.
depends on your use case though
Nvidia cards would be good if: (1) you already have CUDA programs you need to run and there's no OpenCL equivalent; or (2) you have games you really want to play that are optimized for Nvidia and not AMD
@Federico well, most game publishers these days are favoring AMD cards, because both current-gen consoles (Xbox One and Playstation 4) use the same AMD card architecture (GCN) as the latest AMD graphics cards on the PC, and the Mantle API translates fairly well from consoles to the PC and does great for performance
AMD has really gotten the developer mindshare jump on Nvidia this time around, so expect to see fewer and fewer games with much Nvidia optimization attention
that, and the R9 280X -- just one -- is enough to play any existing game at 60 FPS @ 1080p, and it's at a ridiculously low price, something like $210 at some places, cheap enough that you might even be able to afford 2 of them
I have two of them at home (though one of them is branded HD7970 because I got it in 2012, but the R9 280X is the same thing with higher factory clocks) -- in CrossFireX, there's nothing they can't play at 60 fps, probably even at 1440p though I haven't tried it because I don't have a 4K monitor :P
Would there by some way to pull the power instead of conventional shut down, and recover the contents of ram without loading the operating system upon the next start-up? I'm trying to recover files open on an unresponsive Ubuntu live cd.
There is a guy at work that has one of these (he is gluten intolerant and can't use the one in the lunch room):
That is probably why there are toaster icons in the devices menu.
