Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely unacessible. dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda errors when it failed. oh the joy. are you using

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/29/2015 08:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely unacessible. dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/29/2015 04:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure? Asus boards usually support ECC (at least their AMD boards do) and many Gigabyte boards support ECC without telling about it (gigabyte user forums can usually answer that). Hmm, I went and looked some more into this, but all I

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2015 um 22:57 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 07/29/2015 08:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely unacessible. dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda errors when it failed. are you using ecc ram? Nope. if not - maybe, just maybe it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.07.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, all that checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/25/2015 05:12 AM, lee wrote: Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com writes: Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. + Buy good hardware. + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). + Do not put swap partitions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 July 2015 08:49:35 Daniel Frey wrote: I'm going to convert vixie-cron and anacron to cronie with the anacron USE set as well, so I can set the MAILFROM var in crontab as when machines email me I can't figure out which machine it came from. That's odd. When vixie-cron is run as

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/25/2015 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 25 July 2015 08:49:35 Daniel Frey wrote: I'm going to convert vixie-cron and anacron to cronie with the anacron USE set as well, so I can set the MAILFROM var in crontab as when machines email me I can't figure out which machine it

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com writes: Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. + Buy good hardware. + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). + Do not put swap partitions on single disks, either. + Disks always come in

[gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-17 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, all that checked out and I found out I couldn't ssh in to the