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paid for with taxpayer money - so it should be made public. we own those patches!

Surprisingly the article doesn't mention the biggest benefit of telling the truth.... Truth forces you to confront your own shortcomings - its an opportunity for self-improvement. …

I bet it has to do with the target market. 4tb external drives are something an end-user consumer would shop for based on price. While a 4tb bare internal is shopped for by techies…

Data recovery guy here... Failure of external drives has mostly to do with their handling. They get bumped around while runnning. People trip over the cords and knock them over. Th…

"... flipped the disk over..." They called them flippy disks...

Data Recovery guy here... SSDs are fast - but you better back them up. When an SSD fails its usually complete and without warning. Spinning drives will often give you some warning …

Oh, I see what your are saying ... that zfs can detect corrupted files, true. Whats likely to happen in this case is this: The first blocks of the disk contain the superblock, labe…

I don't see how zfs can detect the problem any sooner than any other filesystem. If the problem is caused by the controller wrapping at 2tb then I wouldn't expect zfs to figure it …

I am currently working on a data recovery caused by 2tb limited bridge controller. Customer had an external usb/firewire box with a 3tb drive. At 2tb the writes 'wrapped' back to b…

Meanwhile... California is trying to build a 100 billion dollar bullet-train boondogle that will be ready in 20 years. By that point our efficient electric cars will be able to lin…

This was caused by government unintended consequences.... Some doctors graduated from med school with $100ks in loans. So they immediately filed for bankruptcy and cleared the debt…

'Basic income'? Lets start with 'Basic grading' Currently students earn grades A-F. From now on we should have a 'basic grade', all students will be given a 'D' - a basic passing g…

... to get to the other side... waw-waw-waaaaah....

You could be having the TLER problem. WD green drives can take a long time to do error correction - this causes the raid to drop the drive as failed. This solution is to respond wi…

I have been doing raid data recovery for many years. A very common scenario is "Two Drives Failed at Once". This is usually not the case. What usually happens is 1 drive fails. The…

and don't underestimate the manufacturers ability to screw it up. Like when people 'upgrade' the firmware in their Buffalo NAS box and after that they can't see the data anymore. L…

I once did a RAID data recovery on a system with a high-end Intel raid controller. The controller failed and they sent a new one - only the new one couldn't assemble the raid prope…

I do RAID data recovery for a living. Customers always think that '2 drives failed at the same time'. Thats not what usually happens. What really happens is that 1 drive fails and …

The government wants to raise taxes. (We are already the highest taxed state.) To soften up the voters they will threaten to cut things that are popular. Beaches, Parks, libraries,…

Its SEO'ers.... A competitor of the dog training business hires an SEO Search Engine Optimiser to increase his business. To do that they post negative reviews of all the competitor…