As I said a couple of posts ago, I'm replacing the 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives that have had such terrible reliability -- 4 failures out of 8 disks in a little over two years -- in one or my Synology NAS boxes. I've decided to to this in place, by replacing eachof the four … [Read more...]
Toyota’s great sales strategy
From an article in today's WSJ: Clever, huh? … [Read more...]
Barracuda failures — preemption or not?
The two recent 3 TB Barracuda failures on one of my Synology NAS boxes, bringing the total to four dead disks in 27 months, has made me think that this particular school of Barracudas might well have a common wear mechanism, and that the other four may fail soon, possibly -- if … [Read more...]
Two more Barracuda failures
Ian Fleming used to have James Bond say, "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action." I had my third Seagate Barracuda 3TB drive fail in a little over two years. Then, as the RAID was rebuilding, I had a fourth Barracuda bite its last … [Read more...]
Amazon Cloud — a new backup possibility
This morning, Amazon announced unlimited photo storage for Prime members. Seems like too good to be true. What's the catch? I thought I'd give it a try. There's a Windows app you can download. I did. First thing I did was try to copy a big directory to the cloud. That … [Read more...]
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