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With you on the first one, but I'm thinking you must have pretty sober, dependable media if the second even raises an eyebrow. ;)

Mubs, just as a reality check, try that page with Chrome and be amazed ... I tried FF4 on another PC (2.7GHz Athlon X2) and it's down to one update per second, which is not enough to display the winking lights, so it's pretty much dark. :( There's got to be something wrong with the software...

WTF do people make of this news report? It's "mistaken" yet it's "confirmed". And yes, if you do the math, the 10 million times is right. This is hideous. They've convinced those workers that they're laying down their lives for the greater good, when in fact they're just buying time for the...

Jeebus. That's an amazing story, do you need to keep it incognito or can you start a thread where Lunar or Lunar's equipment aren't dying?

There are near-as-dammit 8,000 posts in this thread. Obviously, I've missed something regarding the results of Ddrueding's adventures with printing at 'Events'. Link, pretty please?

Thanks for the tip.

Good point. I was assuming plenty of free space.

Thanks for your efforts, Bozo. It looks like you proved that there's nothing wrong with your SSDs, as well as getting good results from even a previous generation onboard controller. I'm not sure that I still believe in the need for TRIM, because I suspect idle garbage collection is sufficient...

Anyone?

A mod might like to remove Greg's email address ...

I guess it's possible that you don't have enough motherboard SATA ports, but I'd very strongly encourage you to rethink your need for an add-in controller. I've been doing a lot of research on this lately, and for RAID 0 or RAID 1 at least, there really doesn't seem to be any point supplanting...

Well yes, but. 1. I have to pay a hefty premium for Intel SSD, while in the U.S. they are the same or cheaper than Sandforce drives. 2. Intel X25-M are frequently in short supply here, particularly useful sizes like 80GB. 3. I assume the G2 is now obsolete, so availability after March is...

Have you tried making a RAID with the onboard motherboard contoller?

FF4 does have performance problems, despite superlative javascript benchmarks. It's very obvious on this old 1.8GHz Athlon. :( Viewing that live status page in FF4, it manages barely 2 updates per second while using 98% of the CPU. The latest beta of Opera 11.10 delivers about 4 updates per...

Random write performance (4kB) has halved, from 29.08 to 15.73. I take it that's the 2x X-25M 2 in RAID 0?

Consumer-level SSD have a general problem in that once they have written to all their blocks (wear leveling means they avoid re-using blocks for as long as practicable), blocks have to be erased before writing, which is many times slower. If some data has been deleted from a block (blocks are...

From page 1: Maxtor external drives were still in the sales channel in 2009.

Les taux de pannes des composants and the translation: The failure rate of components Highlights On average, Seasonic power supplies are more than 2.5 times more likely to fail/be returned than Fortron Source power supplies, which in turn have twice the failure rate of Antec units. Some...

Ummm, Fusion-IO charges somewhere between $24 and ~$50 per gigabyte. Dell sells a 640GB version for $15431. I'm proposing to spend about $2 per gigabyte. :o

There are four realistic options for SSDs: Intel, Sandforce, Marvell and Samsung (don't know which controller they are using). AFAIK, performance bites the dust once you have executed the drive's capacity in writes. According to Anand, Crucial's Marvel-based SSDs are particularly crippled...

I'm planning a small business server(s). It will host databases, so it will have SSDs. Because many of us are a trifle edgy about SSD reliability, there will need to be some practical way to automatically or remotely reconstruct a working machine after an SSD failure. Unfortunately, the server...

Hmmm, perhaps I wasn't persistent enough? I found the Norco RPC-450 at a single store for $190 + tax - so only triple what it sells for in the US ... At 15.5kg empty it's a bit of a brute (the Antec is about 14.5kg). Depth is 550mm. In contrast, the HEC 2U is 10.6kg and 535mm depth. So for 20%...

Okay, thanks for that, but further research today has made me realize why a former prime minister reputedly described Australia as the "arse end of the world". Locally, I can buy the cheapest Antec, the 4U, for about $200 + tax. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously heavy (and large) and would be...

I know that the Silverstone LC17/LC20 has an 18" rackmount option. Is there anything else out there that's consumer-orientated and therefore cheap? I'm after the shallowest possible case (to keep international freight costs manageable, so definitely not 700mm deep), with at least one 5 1/4"...

With a bit of luck, that won't have the problem, thereby proving the point.

So did I, but if you review what I wrote, it was happy as a clam when not asked to do anything. Only when I performed enough reads did it go into its kamikaze routine. What I didn't say is that as things deteriorated, I began to suspect that it was caused by reading certain blocks on the drive...

Because your issue seems to be convincing this guy, have you considered leaving a laptop onsite (in his office?) to log wireless strength? I've been playing with the free version of Xirrus here; without checking, I think it would suffice. It tracks all WAPs (and channels) and can log the result...

So an order of magnitude difference between Windblows and Linux? Is it too far fetched to wonder if Microsoft deliberately nobbled this setup? Whatever, great result, Timwhit. Sorry to hear about your EDID woes, too much stuff assumes the values are always perfect.

Good news, of sorts: the drive now misbehaves on the second PC. It seems to be steadily deteriorating and I was unable to get everything off it. Bad news is that the failure mode really, really sucks, causing fatal instability in Windows and even in Clonezilla, which is Linux based. In fact...

I just let the PC sleep, then restored it. The SSD remained fully accessible, so the problem only manifests when the drive is being used to a reasonable extent - and possibly only in that PC. Oh, forgot to mention that I tried Safe Mode as well.

BBB: Sleep is set to 30 minutes - I can reproduce the problem within a couple of minutes of boot up. I had already tried setting a disk boot delay in the BIOS, although only 1 second; I figured that would be enough to help detection if that was a problem. Bozo: Thanks, but done that, see...

Already tried that, by changing the settings in the power profile for HDD sleep to "Never". Can't find any other settings, is there somewhere else I should be looking? It's Windows 7 64-bit.

I built a Sandy Bridge PC (Gigabyte H67 motherboard) with a Corsair Force (Sandforce SSD). After 3 weeks, it's close to death. Because of the preponderance of newly available components, I'm having trouble isolating the actual cause. After a lot of experimentation, what I think is happening is...

{ Ubuntu } cd /etc sudo gedit hdparm.conf Look for: write_cache = off Change off to on, save and reboot.

I've been trying to get a handle on radiation exposure levels. As LiamC points out, the type of radiation makes a big difference, and most importantly, whether it's on your outside or inside. Ingestion of alpha particle sources is highly dangerous because the radiation will all be absorbed by...

This misinformation was in a piece that a Production Engineering academic (no nuclear connection whatsoever) wrote to his brother. It was released on the Internet and embraced by media and heaps of nuclear fanbois, who assumed it was by an expert! As an expert has said, the batteries are to...

Well, it's clearly worse than Three Mile Island (due to radioactive emissions and number of reactors) but nowhere near Chernobyl (and never could be). I guess it's worth a six if conditions worsen. However, at this point my feeling is that there's been enough decay to get them out of the...

Although I'm a long-term fan of Hitachi/IBM drives, I have to question their wisdom using 600GB legacy format platters while competitors such as Samsung use Advanced Format for similarly-sized 667GB platters. Samsung claims unrecoverable errors are an order of magnitude lower with their drives...

Perhaps "3 years" is just the party line? The estimated failure rate ranges from 5 to 15%, so I think they were guessing. Bad news for those of us who unwittingly supplied 'faulty' motherboards. :-?

They have been monitoring seismic activity since 1884. The first of their responsibilities is "Prevention and mitigation of natural disasters" and they form part of the Disaster Management Emergency Team. A different organization of functions to us: both Australia and the US have a separate...

Hi, I sent you an email about 15 minutes ago, but I'm sort of lacking confidence that it's been delivered yet. Any joy?

It depends on the application. Why not just try it and see? You might be able to work around app limitations by auto-moving any files from a R/W folder into your target folder once the user has finished with them. Or, I guess you could script something that set the RO attribute. Off the top of...

Thanks for the offers of help, and thanks to Ddrueding for warning me about FuturePowerPC. Feedback to Reseller Ratings shows they regularly lie about stock availability. Special thanks to CougTek for confirming that there really is stock available for those components. It's interesting that...

Why not just remove the 'Modify' permission on the folder?

It's been really challenging to get reliable information, but this appears to be the situation: Reactor 1 of 6 at the Fukushima Daiichi plant (also known as Fukushima 1, Fukushima Daini is Fukushima 2 and has 4 reactors) has suffered a partial meltdown. Its container building has been partially...

First coherent account of the reactor events I've seen

Not sure how you reconcile that version of events with the detection of caesium, not to mention three randomly chosen residents testing positive to radiation exposure.

There's some serious lying going on with regard to the situation at the nuclear power plants (yes, plural: Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini), which one highly experienced nuclear industry journo sniffed early on. Straight after everyone was being assured there was nothing to worry about...

You have excelled yourself this time. :)

Thanks Buck, but that's a registered DIMM. The models I cited are unregistered.