Pretty common for router/switch manufacturers to include just 1 storage device (SSD/CF/whatever). That's one reason why you buy the second router/switch for redundancy.

Thanks.

Corrected my post. For some reason I thought failure point was outside of the actual switch appliance.

Back in the days when all 10 of your Seagate 120GB drives would die in a span of 2 months, sometimes two or three popping off in the same day.

Most people would have to walk through smog and traffic, and literally enjoy a cold concrete paradise. This doesn't sound enjoyable for meandering. I long for a rural life.

I'll say this again about coinbase, I'm convinced they are playing the market on peoples investment. I bought when bitcoin was starting to rocket, they tied my money up for weeks, bitcoin doubles in that time. Then after that I get a sorry letter and my money back. What was my money doing in that time? Probably making them money.

Something tells me if the price went the other way (in coinbase's favor), the situation would have not ended with refunded money.

echos my experience with them exactly, tied up my money for weeks, then said they can't help me. I'm convinced it's a scam.

oh oh.. this again.

It is now, that's how your supposed to feel. History will tell a very different story. Miley will be just another singer/actress.

Miley is just another singer/actress, and it appalls me to think she's even being considered. It says this country really has turned into "Idiocracy."

Yes, yet youtube is still advertising horror movies to my 2 year old watching kids videos. Other than Rockenblox I've barely seen a ad that is 'kid' related on kids videos.

By kids I meant teens.

Regardless, I've noticed the same thing on YouTube, they really need to fix that. Why are you running an add for car insurance on a video obviously geared towards children? I mean, why are you advertising at all on videos clearly geared towards children.

10 years of growing up watching gocompare or "compare the market" adverts means when they do turn 17 they'll instinctively know where to go for their cheap car insurance without a second thought.

Oh I know. It's still fucked up.

With some of them it's based on the fact that your child doesn't have his or her own account, and likely they're advertising to you.

> I mean, why are you advertising at all on videos clearly geared towards children.

Are you saying toys, video games, and movie trailers for children should not be advertised to children? To who then, to their parents?

We used to make PODs like this at work for netbackup storage.. started with WD drives ~128 WD drives, at about two years we were at ~8 WD drives still working. At least once a week we had people in there swapping drives. I have yet to see a WD not fail.

On the other hand, I've got a WD Caviar Black that's been running strong for more than five years. None of my WD drives have ever failed (knock on wood!). I don't run 100+ drives though, so I'm probably just hiding in the statistical margin.

Your Caviar Black is trumped by my two Scorpio Blacks I had to RMA in one year because of strange read/write delays and clicking noise. No actual failure, but it started from one problem/day when I bought them to 3-4/hour when I sent them back.

Also your thermal environment is going to be quite different, which could be a significant factor. How often do you power-cycle that drive BTW? I've had more drives go bad on power-up (just failing to spin up and move the heads correctly) than through surface errors and such.

I try not to restart that machine more than once a month.

That si better than running the drives 24/7 - if one is going to go then that way it is more likely to go alone. If every in an array (anything I even half way care about get s the RAID1 or RAID5 treatment) has been spinning for years then a power cycle can be quite scary. Restarting once month or so increases the chance that if they fail they'll not all fail at the same time.

Having said that, my main little server at home hasn't had a power cycle for somewhat longer than a month as there have been no kernel updates or that like that have required it...