Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement Who: Roundtable discussion, moderated by Brian Martin and Michael Dexter What: Smarter S.M.A.R.T. and related storage challenges Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance) When: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 at 7pm Why: The pursuit of technology freedom Stream: http://pdxlinux.org/live/
We are addicted to storage devices like hard and solid state disks. Modern computing begins with storage and could survive quite some time without the computing part, as demonstrated by past storage devices like the Rosetta Stone for which we struggle to decode. This means HDD's and SSD's are reliable, right? Alas, they are not. In fact the situation is somewhat terrifying. File systems have made significant progress in the last decade but remarkably, there are still significant issues surrounding the devices they inhabit. Storage devices are inconsistent, to put it politely, about notifying the user of existing, potential and impending problems. Built-in, standard-ish reporting mechanisms like S.M.A.R.T. exist but pose as many challenges as they address. Some storage "health" monitoring data is straight-forward, some is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 Bring your storage-related questions, war stories and gadgets! Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250469450 Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. after the meeting. Rideshares Available PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxlinux.org/ Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings. See you there! Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
