CubitOom

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[–] CubitOom 2 points 5 months ago
[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you'd have to figure out how to define a "problem" first. It's a better IDE to define what metrics might indicate you need to replace soon before a problem actually happens.

[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You could just run it in a cron and have it tee to a file or even send an email report

[–] CubitOom 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That link above has a check list of sorts to help in the identification.

[–] CubitOom 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I was running the numbers in my head and realized that if hosting media like music and video files where it's just written to once and read from a lot, a large 2.5 inch SSD might be a better buy than a HDD (especially if size limited to a 2.5 inch HDD). My reasoning is that a HDD needs replacement after around 50,000 power on hours. But an SSD needs replacement depending on how often the entire drive is overwritten. For a media server that should mean that the HDD will be replaced much more often than an SSD. And that's without considering vibration related issues of having multiple drives in the same server or if you experience frequent power outages (both of which would make a better case for an ssd.

So what I do is I use an M.2 SSD for the OS, and the largest 2.5 sata SSD I can find which will fit my storage and backup solution. (recently bought 4x 8TB SSDs). For the m.2 drive, try to get the best value size as I've never heard anyone complain about having too big of a drive.

For all SSDs (m.2 and data) make sure that it accurately reports SMART data for you can keep tabs on their health metrics.

[–] CubitOom 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Can someone link this in some way that doesn't require a google sign in?

Btw, we're better than Google.

[–] CubitOom 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

My amature guess is that it's turkey tail (Trametes versicolor)

It might help if the tree its found on could be identified

[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago

That dragon is broiling that turkey, not baking it. Dragon broiled turkeys almost always burn.

[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's awesome. Although I can't recommend Ubuntu for noobs anymore

[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just a local community college.

[–] CubitOom 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It gave me an excuse to stop living with my mentally and financially abusive mother and talk to people that were genuinely interested in things I was into.

This is something a close network of friends could also helped with, but I didn't have that at the time.

[–] CubitOom 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you, I find this therapeutic.

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