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[–] 6 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

My built-in Devil's Advocate has to ask if that's really true? Have you got a citation newer than 2 decades old? Frankly, i find it difficult to believe that anyone wouldn't like to use electron software, for the simple reason that making your SSD suffer is fun.

Edit: in 30 years of administering Linux and (previously) Solaris sytems i've never once had to change HDDs or SSDs, so claims of torture are, i opine, exaggerated. i'll also claim that keeping electron software out of the filesystem is not good for your hygiene.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

    That’s some really great luck you have, over the 15 years or so I have been running my Linux server I have had to replace the SSD twice(likely due to gentoo and compiling everything all the time) and had 2 hdds in my raid cluster need replacement. Here’s hoping my NAS has your luck

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  • [–] 5 points 11 hours ago* (3 children)

    To be clear: what i wrote is not actually something real, it was a joke i made by modifying a comment from a thread on github gist, i am actually surprised it wad credible enough that someone would reply seriously xD

    https://gist.github.com/joshenders/c4960cec9c63a7b7d68ffa9543356c43

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago (2 children)

    Definitely bit the onion on this one, it did seem remarkable lol though I just pulled a 16 year old drive out of my Son’s PC(that was technically still working however slowly) hence the semi plausibility on my end lol

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 child)

    lmao, 16 years is a lot! That drive can drive

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Yeah it was to the point that Samsung doesn’t even admit to have made this drive on their website anywhere, I pulled the drive and was like wtf Samsung rust? I almost exclusively bought western digital in recent memory so was a surprise, had to do some digging to decode the manufacturing codes to identify the manufacturing date

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    I manage a cluster that makes heavy use of SSDs in RAID10 configuration. Those things are constantly degrading and having to be swapped out. I've started a drawer of faulted drives that I don't have the heart you throw out.

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