Re: RIP - dead harddisk..

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>]

On 09/10/2013 08:00 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.
> 

I won't get any stationary machines without mirrored drives anymore.
Storage just isn't reliable enough.

	-hpa