Two weeks ago, I had issues with GRUB and my mdadm array @djsmiley2k
The / and /boot partitions had not finished syncing after replacing the disk, and the system would not boot with the new drive in. I did a hot-swap while the system was running, then forced it to do / and /boot first, then I could run the GRUB install command again
General rule is that you want air being pulled in from the front, bottom, and/or side panel, and exhausted through the back and top (not all cases or systems have all fans). Air should flow from front to back and from bottom to top.
@HornOKPlease The bottom Noctua fan needs to be oriented towards the graphics card. As shown in the video, the fan is aimed away from it. Air should generally be blown towards the graphics card fans, because they pull air from below it and upwards towards the GPU, exhausting warm air to the side.
> 1 cat loves it and the other doesnt get intrigued at all. A fun toy to play with if your cats react to catnip. Cat has scratched and chewed the ball but the build quality is sturdy enough to withstand many hours of play.
She has 2 cats
Chances are at least one will like it...?
Ok apparently you can't get catnip online in India
> Cats love catnip. And it's perfectly safe - there's nothing in it that can harm your cat. If by some chance your cat was to eat a large amount of catnip, it could cause a mild tummy upset, but that's not likely to happen.
@rahuldottech Ignore reviews saying it doesn't work. Some cats do not have the genes to respond to catnip.
> It’s also important to understand that not all cats respond to catnip. Approximately one out of two cats develops sensitivity to the plant, and the effects will not show until they reach 3 to 6 months in age. So don’t be sad if it turns out your cat is immune to catnip; she just didn’t get the genes for it.
@rahuldottech So go to a pet shop. Buy catnip and send through the mail?
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HGST is generally considered to be the most reliable. Seagate has historically been the least reliable but has improved in recent years. WD is somewhere in the middle.
...installed the Noctua NF-A14 iPPC-2000 PWM as the rear exhaust fan on Astaroth. All systems go, but fan curve needs a but of tuning. Fan tops out at about 1900 rpm (the old fan did about 1050) and should be much more resistant to interference from other fans due to its much higher static pressure (the old fan would measurably slow down when the graphics card fans run full blast).
(Noctua spec is 2000 rpm ±10%, and the fan is blowing against a coarse grille with a small obstruction to airflow, which may reduce max speed a tiny bit)
Yes, it does get loud at full speed, but it's not insanely so (the Noctua 3000 rpm fans are pretty bad in this regard) there's plenty of room to turn down the speed, and noise levels at moderate speeds, e.g. 1000 to 1300 rpm, are very tolerable.
Oddly enough I've not ever had a completely dead HDD, SSD, or SD card from Samsung, ever. I don't recall ever having a completely dead HGST drive that wasn't my own fault either. I've many several flakey Samsung hard drives, but none properly died, yet their SSDs are considered the most reliable by far.
I've had a Kingston and Sandisk SD card just die completely from a firmware bug, Sony, Samsung and Lexar ones fail gracefully, yet a Sandisk SSD failed semi-gracefully, an OCZ one die just completely from a firmware bug, many Seagate HDDs go flakey, some even by design, WDs HDDs die completely then inexplicably work fine two years later, WDs that fail gracefully, and just about everything else
Some I've not powered up in 3-5 years, I don't even remember the last SMART logs or scans I did. AFAIK none of the Seagate 4TB NAS have had issues, nor the 8TB Seagate Archive drives (1st gen SMR)
Currently have a Seagate 4TB 2.5", a 1TB Toshiba 2.5", 8 TB Seagate 3.5", 6-8 Samsung 2.5" SSDs, a Toshiba NVMe and a Samsung NVMe. They seem to be getting more reliable as they go on, not had a single issue on any drive in the past 4 years even with decent amounts of abuse
When I used to run a laptop repair service I've had piles of dead drives of many brands, but WDs stood out as the most common and Seagate second
Yet at the end of the day my personal stuff has had more data losses in RAID arrays from controller bugs, software issues, and human error, and not a single one from actual hardware faults.
Back when I built my last array was around the time of mass corporate adoption, many manufacturers got bought out, merged, or went out of business, then Samsung and Toshiba came new to the market
I don't think Samsung makes HDDs anymore, IBM got merged into HGST then got bought by WD, Toshiba withdrew from the enterprise market, so we really only have Seagate and WD left now.
I've only bought one hard drive in the last five years... everything's else has been solid state since I built my last storage array, and even then half those companies have gone or merged.
