Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753614Ab3IKDCU (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:02:20 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:15724 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605Ab3IKDCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:02:19 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,881,1371106800"; d="scan'208";a="376373451" Message-ID: <522FDD32.9040603@linux.intel.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:02:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: John Stoffel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Guenter Roeck , Dave Airlie , Bruce Fields Subject: Re: RIP - dead harddisk.. References: <21039.55685.839356.195087@quad.stoffel.home> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 36 On 09/10/2013 08:00 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. > I won't get any stationary machines without mirrored drives anymore. Storage just isn't reliable enough. -hpa -- 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/