Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-11 Thread Zos Xavius
SMART cannot warn against catastrophic failure like the loss of the controller board for instance. It's use as an early warning system is limited at best and misleading at worst. On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 15:06 P. J. Alling wrote: > Well it's happened again. I've had a hard drive failure. I've mana

Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-11 Thread John
On 10/10/2018 16:26, Larry Colen wrote: P. J. Alling wrote on 10/10/18 1:21 PM: I'm pretty sure at this point that Murphy invented computers. Nope, he was a rocket scientist. Technically an aerospace engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr. But, when you get right down

Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-10 Thread Jostein
Den 10.10.2018 22:26, skrev Larry Colen: But, when you get right down to it, Murphy's law is rocket science. Somehow, it has always felt like more to the sprocket end of science. Or maybe even Sprocket's end of science, if you watched Fraggle Rock. Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail Lis

Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-10 Thread Larry Colen
P. J. Alling wrote on 10/10/18 1:21 PM: I'm pretty sure at this point that Murphy invented computers. Nope, he was a rocket scientist. Technically an aerospace engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy_Jr. But, when you get right down to it, Murphy's law is rocket science. -

Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-10 Thread P. J. Alling
I'm pretty sure at this point that Murphy invented computers. On 10/10/2018 4:14 PM, Jostein wrote: Computer trouble is what keeps old Murphy alive and kicking, I guess. Jostein Den 09.10.2018 21:06, skrev P. J. Alling: Well it's happened again.  I've had a hard drive failure.  I've managed

Re: Small computer rant.

2018-10-10 Thread Jostein
Computer trouble is what keeps old Murphy alive and kicking, I guess. Jostein Den 09.10.2018 21:06, skrev P. J. Alling: Well it's happened again.  I've had a hard drive failure.  I've managed to recover most of the important files from between backups, from the almost dead drive, and replaced

Small computer rant.

2018-10-09 Thread P. J. Alling
Well it's happened again.  I've had a hard drive failure.  I've managed to recover most of the important files from between backups, from the almost dead drive, and replaced it with two refurbished 2TB Hitachi Server quality drives.   I'm running them in mirrored mode so I have data redundancy.