Well in that case you might also want to make BD-R back-ups.
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I backup my stuff on multiple local RAID1's. It would take a quadruple failure or more for me to actually lose data. Site stuff is backed up in a similar fashion, some on-site, some off-site. I never did jump on the SSD bandwagon. When a SSD fails, recovering data is impossible. A trusty old spinner, unless the head grinds the platter into dust, you can usually get your stuff before it completely dies. The raptors are pretty snappy....
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Yeah, true, but what about speed/access? As far as back up goes, I guess the next logical step is the Cloud...
Although it can become in a PITA to restore spinners (or $$ if the damage is really bad)Leave a comment:
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unless you have an INCREDIBLE amount of money, SSD's don't have near a good price/GB ratio of regular HD's.
you can buy a 1TB HD for $69, or a 1TB SSD for $1400+
you could also, in this case, get like 4 256M SSD's and set them up in raid 0 for like 1GLeave a comment:
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No SSD = failLeave a comment:
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that compressor is always a such a whoreLeave a comment:
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Last week, this system had its first failure after almost 4 years of running 24/7/365. The 3ware controller was bitching and screaming at me.....so I checked it, half expecting to find a busted RAID and/or a bad drive.....but no! The friggin' battery for the BBU had gone bad, thankfully!! Damn OEM battery was 63 bucks from newegg.... There's cheaper off-brand replacements on fleabay for like 9 bucks.....but I wasn't willing to gamble that. Batt arrived today, and all is well in the world again.... While I had it out from under the desk, and dragged up to the shop for some work to change the battery, I gave it a blow job from the air compressor. It was quite dusty inside.Leave a comment:
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Under the BBU. it looks like that before the BBU is installed, the module covers the heatsink.Originally posted by dood
Watch out Mikey, its folding now!!
it's officially in use. Old system is shut down and waiting to be carted off to the shop.
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Pic on the box doesn't match the card at all. Where's the heatsink?Leave a comment:
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It will be folding very soon!!Originally posted by stretch0069
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Shhhh, don't say that. He's sitting right behind me in the rankings.Originally posted by stretch0069
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so when the hell are you going to start folding with it???????????????????????????????Leave a comment:
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Also I have a 640GB Caviar Black in my machine, and my buddy and I have a 1TB Caviar Black in our 24/7 torrent box.
My 640GB is still very young (5 Months) but has given no trouble so far, it's been rock solid... the 1TB in our torrent server has gone bad on us twice now over the period of ten months - both times for bad sectors
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My buddy also had a 500GB Caviar Black in his system until he sold it last month. It ran for almost a year rock solid no problems same as my 640GB, and was still running terrific when he sold the system last month.Leave a comment:
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It's alive and well!! This is my first post from it!! hit a few snags initially, the 3ware controller was not playing nice with the motherboard at all. Updated the BIOS on the board and the firmware on the controller, still no go. Stumped, I called supermicro......turns out there's a newer BIOS for the board that isn't even on the website. The support rep emailed it to me, I flashed the BIOS again, and shazam! 3ware and motherboard are now happy together.
I also saved myself 300 bucks today, I found a pair of 73gb SATA2 raptors I forgot I had, so I used those instead of ordering a pair of 150giggers.
Anyway, XP Pro x64 is installed and running. Once past the little bios glitch, it was smooth sailing. Device manager shows a purty 8 CPU's, 16 CPU's with HT enabled, and all 24gb of the RAM is present and accounted for. I still need my big dump drives. Was looking at a pair of 1tb drives, but it seems everything 1tb+ is miserably unreliable and failure-prone.... Eyeballing a pair of 640gb drives now, which seem to have better reviews.
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No battery is required for the controller to retain its RAID configuration, but as you said, it will prevent dataloss if the system crashes or power is lost. it is an optional feature for the card, I just thought what teh hell, why not get the whole works....Originally posted by 370forlife
The module and batt will retain data stored in the cache at the time of the failure and rebuild it upon powering back up or system reset. This nifty little add on allows you to enable write caching without worrying, which increases performance.Leave a comment:
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They have a CMOS that keeps settings like the mainboard. I think that big of battery may also keep the data that is on the card's ram/buffer too.Leave a comment:
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why does the raid-card have batteries?
i'v noticed batteries on some scsi raid too, but never knew why.Leave a comment:
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Some more pics:
The 3ware controller in its box:
Out of its box:
Removed cables from Supermicro to the SAS backplane (not needed, the 3ware has proprietary cabling):
Adios onboard raid....its good enough to run opticals, thats it:
SATA connectors on the back of the SAS backplane:
Getting messy looking:
That looks kinda sexy. The PCI card is a USB2 card. My only gripe about this system, its lacking USB ports. Only 2 in the front and 4 in the back, so I added the extra card:
Fans back in place:
Nifty card reader and those opticals again:
The memory should be here this week.Attached FilesLeave a comment:
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SSD with critical data = fail. I'll stay with my spinners.
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I know I've been a little scarce lately (like the last 2-3 years), but I'm still here and still doing my thing with fixing PSUs.
For today's considerations, I have a Seasonic B12 BC-550 [A551bcafh] 550 Watt ATX power supply for you (click on links for full size images).
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591771
https://www.badcaps.net/filedata/fetch?id=3591772
It's a modern ATX unit with fixed (non-modular) cables and an 80-plus bronze certificate. Here's the label:
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Hello. Ive got problem with Dell Latitude 3520. After power on, no display and fan goes crazy. Standard job, I exported a clean bios from update via pfs extract.
Steps i done and results:
I exported a clean bios from update file via pfs extract.
1. Build clean bios with clean ME, PMC, PCH in flash image tool.
Result: Dead
2. Build clean bios with no changes in ME, new PMC, PCH
Result: Dead
3. Build old bios with clean ME, new PMC, PCH
Result: The same
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Hi,
You will probably find this funny, and it is, but it's also a project I'd like to take seriously.
I have a campervan and I'd like to avoid thieves to break in it when I am inside it or not.
For this purpose I imagined a simple device that can play a sound based on a vibration detection (in case of intrusion attempt) or by pushing a button manually.
The sound wil be a growling dog, which will deter any thief, thinking there is a big dog inside the van
This sound can be manually triggered by me if I'm inside the van, or played automatically...
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