Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753177Ab3IKDAb (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:00:31 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f170.google.com ([209.85.220.170]:55089 "EHLO mail-vc0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752411Ab3IKDAa (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:00:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21039.55685.839356.195087@quad.stoffel.home> References: <21039.55685.839356.195087@quad.stoffel.home> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:00:29 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7YfOzlo4_GJFpQoyDVzLIz23qSU Message-ID: Subject: Re: RIP - dead harddisk.. From: Linus Torvalds To: John Stoffel Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Anvin , Guenter Roeck , Dave Airlie , Bruce Fields Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1296 Lines: 29 On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, John Stoffel wrote: > > Linus> The timing absolutely sucks, but it looks like the SSD in my > Linus> main workstation just died on me. > > What model, if you care to share? I figure you'r a perfect storm of > SSD beating with all your compiles and git pulls, etc. So I don't want to necessarily blame the harddisk, since it's just ten days since I upgraded the rest of my machine, after it worked years in the previous one. That just makes me go "hmm". As far as I know, all the fans etc were working fine, but.. > And may I suggest that you get TWO of them next time and mirror them, > for just this case? The SysAdmin in my shouting out here... I long ago gave up on doing backups. I have actively moved to a model where I use replacable machines instead. I've got the stuff I care about generally on a couple of different machines, and then keys etc backed up on a separate encrypted USB key. So it's inconvenient. Mainly from a timing standpoint. But nothing more. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/