Tim Connors wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:
>
> >     $ msy | foldr grep -Fi -- 2tb 3.5 sata3 7200
>
> msy?  That looks nifty, given how horrible browsing the pictures on their
> webshite is.
>
> details?

http://www.cyber.com.au/~twb/.bin/msy
http://www.cyber.com.au/~twb/.bin/foldr

Not using XSLT I'm afraid.

I don't really *buy* from MSY anymore,
but I use that as a lowball quote comparison.

There's staticice, but I suck at driving clicky browsers.

> > What's the failure mode when the NAND wears out?
> > Does it detect that and fall back to being a regular HDD?
>
> Hah!  You did a funny.  Hardware venduhs having sane error handling.
>
> But even if it did fall back, it would become unusable.  200mb write
> stripes.  Gives you about 1 IOP when writing random seeks.

I guess I really meant "usable long enough to get the data off it".

Since this is mostly being talked abuot in the context of dinky gaming
machines & laptops, rather than 4U servers, I figure the person buying
probably hasn't bothered to set up a proper backup/archive regime.
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