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I wonder if anyone here has experienced something similar: I have a Samsung Evo 860 SSD. Sometimes after powering on my desktop the BIOS either "forgets" the drive (sets some other drive as primary boot drive) or doesn't recognize it at all. The non recognition issue goes away after I power off and power on. It's been this way for about 8 months. Happens every 1/15 times I power on. I've heard it may have something t…
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> to an HDD all sectors are the same. Also I believe some humans, and (filesystems?) intentionally stored certain data towards the inside/outside of the HDD because the simple cylinder geometry allowed faster reads in those regions. However, I'm not seeing conclusive proof that modern HDDs show performance variation with respect to radius.
People reduce the number of cylinders to keep seek time under control. It just happens that if you are going to choose what cylinders to use, you better choose the inner ones that are slightly faster.
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strange. archive.is is resolving to 127.0.0.5 for me even if I do nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1 Server: one.one.one.one Address: 1.1.1.1 Name: archive.is Address: 127.0.0.5
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strange. archive.is is resolving to 127.0.0.5 for me even if I do nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1 Server: one.one.one.one Address: 1.1.1.1 Name: archive.is Address: 127.0.0.5
Here are a couple more mirrors: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3... http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url:http%3A%2F%2Fkcall.co.u... Hopefully one of them will work for you.
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Intel SSDs are known for advertising graceful degradation to Read Only mode, when in reality simply suddenly die during endurance tests.
As I recall, there are at least three problems here: 1. Basically no software is prepared to be "graceful" about their storage suddenly going read-only, especially when the OS is trying to run off that drive. 2. Intel drives at end of life go read-only until the next power cycle , whereupon they turn into bricks. 3. The threshold at which Intel drives go read-only is when the warrantied write endurance runs out, not…
That's inconvenient, given that the first instinct of many people at the first sign of read trouble is to power-cycle the drive. Maybe not in enterprise scenarios, but certainly in consumer ones.
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Why is that scene so pointlessly edgy? Is the whole show like that?
It's pointedly edgy, because thousands of people died. Or 30, if you believe the govt. report.
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strange. archive.is is resolving to 127.0.0.5 for me even if I do nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1 Server: one.one.one.one Address: 1.1.1.1 Name: archive.is Address: 127.0.0.5
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strange. archive.is is resolving to 127.0.0.5 for me even if I do nslookup archive.is 1.1.1.1 Server: one.one.one.one Address: 1.1.1.1 Name: archive.is Address: 127.0.0.5
archive.is is censored by CloudFlare. Use a different DNS resolver.
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Hard drives generally use a fairly simple linear mapping between LBAs and physical location. Low LBAs are on the outer edge of the platter where transfer speeds are highest, and high LBAs are on the inner edge where speeds are lowest. Unlike SSDs, hard drives don't need wear leveling, so there's no reason to break from that pattern except in the relatively rare instance of damaged sectors. At smaller scales, the layo…
Low LBAs are outside rather than inside?? I had no idea.