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Journeyman Geek

22:00

yup

But seperate business unit/product line

qasdfdsaq

Oh and they only make datacenter drives now I believe.

Journeyman Geek

nope

they still seem to have consumer drives

just really hard to find

qasdfdsaq

I'm pretty sure I saw a press release a year or two back saying they were no longer developing consumer drives, at least with specific technologies

Journeyman Geek

hm

looks like they do NAS, laptop and enterprise drives

:(

Who am I going to buy desktop drives from now?

qasdfdsaq

You... still buy desktop hard drives?

Journeyman Geek

22:03

yup

qasdfdsaq

I think the last desktop drives I bought were 2011, and they didn't actually go into a desktop

Journeyman Geek

bulk storage?

I have a 3tb drive in my main desktop

I have a DIY nas planned eventually around a HP microserver

qasdfdsaq

I took the last spinning drives out of my desktop last year and went all NAS

I was trying to cut down the noise in my PC and the last remaining source was the HDD vibration

Journeyman Geek

can't put my games on a NAS ;p

qasdfdsaq

Well, installed games go on my SSD, not-currently-installed games go on the NAS

Journeyman Geek

22:08

meh

Different philosophies.

qasdfdsaq

Lol, kinda forgot that "Forward thrust" and "Reverse thrust" mean different things when your engine is mounted backwards -_-

Journeyman Geek

ruh ruh raggy

qasdfdsaq

And I did used to have a couple 1-2TB HDDs in my desktop for bulk storage, but in the end I figured it was just ... inefficient

Journeyman Geek

I have a 3tb one on my ~~laptop~~ desktop and a small 3tb single disk nas (kind of an interim system)

qasdfdsaq

Cone of shame? I don't come across that much

Wait you can get 3TB laptop drives?!

Journeyman Geek

22:11

no

desktop

yup

qasdfdsaq

Lol ok

Journeyman Geek

Yeah, but dog jokes ;p

almost all my system drives are ~250gb ssds

qasdfdsaq

Yup, that was me a year or two ago.

Still have about four or five 250GB SSDs, though on my desktop they're now RAID'ed

250 got a bit too small withotu secondary storage in my desktop so I just switched them from RAID-1 to RAID-0

And bought a 500GB drive to RAID-1 the RAID-0 array to, because I trust nothing.

My level of trust in SSDs is even lower than my level of trust in Seagate drives.

Bob

lol

If a random drive fails, I have...

a 12.5% chance of not losing anything (RAID 1)

qasdfdsaq

My backup regime is far far too sloppy to be useful

Bob

22:20

a 25% chance of losing some backups

a 25% chance of losing some partially-cloned data

qasdfdsaq

Also I've lost more data to RAID failures than I have to actual drive failures -_-

Bob

and a 25% chance of losing actual (non-critical) data

qasdfdsaq

Huh

Bob

hm. that's not counting SSDs actually

qasdfdsaq

:-(

If a random drive fails I have a zero percent chance of losing any data at all :-/

Bob

22:22

but I have very little data on SSDs

qasdfdsaq

Assuming that only one drive fails and nothing else

Bob

hm, miscounted

only have two bulk data (not backed up) drives

and even then most of it is somewhat redundant with the other drives

actual amount of data lost would be little to none

qasdfdsaq

Ah.

The majority of my data isn't backed up at all, just backed by RAID/ZFS redundancy.

Backing up all my data would require an additional £1000+ of hardware if I did it locally, and several years of uploading if I did it in the cloud.

Bob

I have two dedicated backup drives... one 2 TB and one 5 TB

qasdfdsaq

Most of it's at practically zero risk from drive failures anyway, and at far more risk of an accidental rm -rfthan anything else.

Bob

22:27

another drive is actually used for backups of laptops, but I don't have some of those laptops now so if I lost that drive I'd lost some data

qasdfdsaq

(No, they're not at risk of accidental chmod's

Bob

and another one is for system images

come to think of it

my biggest risk of data loss is the bulk storage and that one's kinda backed up... poor man's backup (giant 2 TB 7z)

qasdfdsaq

Actually, now that I think of it I do have some data that is at risk of a drive failure, part of the data on my rental server is not secured by redundancy or backups

Bob

oh. if we're talking about servers... mine isn't backed up at all -_-

the ovh server is running raidz1 though

and most of the data there is ephemeral. it'd just be a pain in the arse to set it up again

qasdfdsaq

I have RAID-1 on only part of my rental server, and some very old (2-year+) backups of some of the VMs

My excuse is I don't control the hardware on that box.

Bob

22:32

the other server has no redundancy

and has been in limbo for half a year while I try to figure out what else I still need to migrate :S

I really should do that one first

qasdfdsaq

o_0

And you've been paying for it the whole time?

Bob

@qasdfdsaq ...yes

DavidPostill

Hmm. I was able to review 40 first posts today instead of the usual 20. Have the limits been tweaked because of the growing queues?

Journeyman Geek

22:50

Did you hit a reputation milestone?

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Not unless it's 39,900 which seems an unusual number ...

Journeyman Geek

Hmm weird.

I do not recall TPTB mentioning anything to that effect

qasdfdsaq

23:23

@Bob Ouch

Bob

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Q: Do people in China say 新年快乐 at Spring Festival?

The questions Is there a traditional Chinese New Year greeting? and Which expression do native speakers actually use: Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (or other)? describe various greetings for this time of year. But they do not specifically address 新年快乐. Chinese people in the US often say...

@qasdfdsaq ^

qasdfdsaq

Heh

Bob

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Q: Is there a traditional Chinese New Year greeting?

I know people often say 新年快乐 to mean happy new year, but is there a traditional greeting used in Chinese to express your good wishes for the new year? If so, what, and how did it originate?

mandarin mainland-china

qasdfdsaq

I might end up in Taiwan for new year

Bob

I didn't even know we had a Chinese Language

qasdfdsaq

23:30

Err Thailand

Bob

@qasdfdsaq ...this one?

So, in the next few days? :P

qasdfdsaq

@Bob No

Songkran (Thailand)

The Songkran festival (Thai: สงกรานต์, pronounced [sǒŋ.krāːn], listen) is celebrated in Thailand as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April. The word "Songkran" comes from the Sanskrit word saṃkrānti (Devanāgarī: संक्रांति), literally "astrological passage", meaning transformation or change. It coincides with the rising of Aries on the astrological chart, the New Year of many calendars of South and Southeast Asia. The festive occasion is in keeping with the Buddhist/Hindu solar calendar. == New year traditions == Songkran celebration is rich with symbolic traditions. The morning begins...

Bob

Oh.

Their new year.

You spend a lot of time traveling o.O

qasdfdsaq

Not nearly as much as I did when I was younger

And to be fair, I live in a shithole of a town that I hate, so there's not like there's much to do except leave.

If I do go though this'll be the first year I've ever made it past the default starting tier on my frequent flyer membership

Bob

23:52

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Q: What was the aim of this HTTP request

I currently run an Apache HTTP server, and have set up monitoring to receive emails whenever an error appears in the error logs. I get the usual trying to find if I'm using HTTP 1.0 and trying to see if I'm using off the shelf software like WordPress that can be exploited. Over the weekend I saw...

http apache

o.O

qasdfdsaq

lol

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