Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:00:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: RIP - dead harddisk.. | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:46 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> 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
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