[Wolves] Tinkle tinkle little disk...

[Adam Sweet]

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Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 05/01/2008, Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver at mavit.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Adam Sweet wrote:
>>
>>> Google did a study on disk failures over a period of around 5 years and
>>> found that heavy usage and high temperature were overstated factors. In
>>> fact in most cases, low temperature and infrequent usage were most
>>> common in failed drives, apart from in very old and very new disks,
>>> which were susceptible to high temps and heavy usage.
>> I accidentally unplugged my PC while it was running a few weeks ago, which
>> trashed one of the sectors on the disk.  One to avoid.
>>
> 
> Well it's never recommended unplugging the PC when it's working but
> how can we avoid power cuts?  Which would be the same thing?  Yes, I
> know about UPS but how many people realistically have a UPS at home.

To be pedantic and add nothing to the conversation all at the same time,
I do. It was made redundant at work when we moved offices and I am a
sysadmin working from home, so I had legitimate requirement and it cost
me nothing.

I've known 2 powercuts here since I moved in just over 2 years ago due
the crappy local grid and several blown fuses due to the old wiring in
the house. The first cut, I was working from a centralised office and I
didn't have the UPS so when I got home and discovered the outage I had
to go to my parents house (for warmth) and use a mobile phone over
bluetooth for a dialup connection (9.6K downstream and 2.4 up - woo!) as
I couldn't get the POTS dialup to work.

The last powercut was Christmas Day just gone, which was shit. Still, I
stayed in bed when I realised I wasn't going to be able to make any
coffee and then remembered I had a UPS and managed to half boil the
kettle before the UPS battery, which had been running for quite a while,
finally died, but thankfully it provided me with a mug of lukewarm
coffee which meant Christmas Day was allowed to start.

I seem to be quite fond of telling useless stories on the list recently,
sorry about that.

Regards,

Adam Sweet

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