Actually, I wonder if it's time to consider salvage stuff from the Studio PC and build another one? This is the same PC that ATE MY MASTERS. It can't be coincidence that at least two drives have been ruined on this PC. Maybe the fault lies somewhere on the motherboard or power supply (which was also replaced).
Might be time to BACKUP what I can.
sounds prudent... perhaps the part of the hardware that works with the drives is failing
ReplyDeleteIt can be the drives. I scan then regularly at work, and most show serious seek issues after just six months. I've given up on hard disks for anything except bulk storage, and those have to be raided. We had a 4teraraid go down when one drive failed. Plugging in a new drive increased the load enough that a second failed. Took two weeks to resync a backup drive and update that from the cloud backup.
ReplyDeleteWell, I might have to spend money on some SSDs if I build a new one.
ReplyDeleteFred Beckhusen How about the reliability of SSD.. any comment on that?
ReplyDeleteA modern SSD is unlikely to die under normal condtions . Stress tests using a super fast CPU doing nothing but writing a large set of files took as much as 2.5 Petabytes to kill them. That is 2.5 billion megabytes, or 625,000 HDTV videos of 4G length, which would take 140+ years to watch. Your experience may differ. It is very much larger than normal CPU usage.
ReplyDeletetechreport.com - The SSD Endurance Experiment: They're all dead
You don;t need a huge ass drive for Opensim. I broke a 64 GB SSD a couple of years ago that just ran the Outworldz Opensim grid. The plastic tab that supported the SATA pins broke off. They weigh so little I had it hanging from a cable in a basically empty case for several years. Fan vibration probably got to it and stress cracks may have formed.
To future-proof a machine, when $$ is not a consideration, look for PCIEexpress M2.5 form factor. These are the size of a stick of gum, but run much faster PCIx 2.0 in 1 to 4 lanes. I have M2.5 in a Intel NUC running the OsGrid Gravity sim and one for testing Dreamworld. It's sweet. But this class of machine is just overkill for Opensim. It could probably run a viewer and 35 big sims without breaking a sweat.
http://www.computershopper.com/feature/2017-guide-the-best-m.2-solid-state-drives-tested
Good info above for you Laura Ess :) Thanks Fred Beckhusen
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read going back some years, while the controller can certainly be a cause of multiple drive failures it is more likely due to some other stress factors associated with physical stress or power stress (supply, spikes, lightning).
Either way, going SSD increases reliability and having a good backup strategy reduces stress on you so you can focus on the fun :)
Fred Beckhusen Thanks for that. I won't be building anything new until I sort out my health first, but that's a HUGE help.
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