Comments on: Possible Interruption

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 03:08:11 +0000

Cox wants you to lease a modem from them, but their modems are crap. The modem I bought was paid for in three months of no lease payments is and twice as fast as their modem in actual use.

You have a wealth of choices. The best choice is the one that works the longest. 😉

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 22:48:43 +0000

Yeah, I had that fun with my cable modem a couple of weeks ago and ended up replacing one that Compost didn’t fully support anymore with a newer cable modem that is the fastest that Compost currently supports. Compost *finally* got it configured right and it’s fast as the blazes now, but man.

The nice thing about rotating storage is that it gives you a warning before it quits working. SSD’s usually just quit — they work one day, they don’t work the next. SIGH. Right now I’m trying to decide what filesystem to use on my new drives. I can use BTRFS, which is officially a “technology demonstration” because it keeps losing files plus runs terribly with virtualization, or ZFS, which is rock solid but slow and not GPL so it isn’t part of the kernel, or I can use XFS which is a good filesystem but requires putting it on top of RAID and is susceptible to bit rot. Well, at least I have good choices….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:08:43 +0000

I was replacing my router as the old one was acting strange. It takes a while to reset everything and get it back to a reasonable level of service.

If it’s mechanical, it wears out. Fortunately the replacements are usually cheaper than the originals.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 02:40:26 +0000

Good luck! I just finished putting a new (used) SAS2 backplane into my big NAS box so I can run my SATA3 drives at full SAS2 speed (I already had the controller and a couple of compatible drives). So far so good, it really is nice to have all my drive lights working again! (The old backplane was salvaged from an e-waste dumpster behind a computer company that was going out of business, and while all the slots worked, a couple of the LED’s didn’t light up).

Looking at all the drives with smartctl to see what speeds they’d negotiated, I noticed that my Hitachi Deathstars had racked up a nice litany of errors in their SMART logs. I guess the next thing I need to do is migrate them to my array of Western Digital RE’s, then decide what to replace them with.