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1. Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Feb-2022 00:12:03 UTC Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

   Windows 95 disk defragmenter.

   I won't admit how many hours I sat in front of that window, watching the blocks get moved around. Good times.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv1gQ5Rs8A

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   • greypilgrim@fosstodon.org's status on Tuesday, 15-Feb-2022 06:42:42 UTC greypilgrim

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     @atoponce I thought I was being smart by running it on a friend's computer. The drive was extremely fragmented. I thought it would make it a bit faster, since it was quite slow. Of course, it took forever. Went to bed with the defrag running. The next day (slept over), the drive was dead.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Feb-2022 06:46:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • greypilgrim
     @greypilgrim @atoponce Reminds of the friend who said "I don't think my hard drive is feeling so good".
     
     I came over and the drive sounded like a grinder. I made a backup immediately. Backup done, I wanted to double-check that I got everything, but when I read the disk again it went griiiiiindchunk, then silence, and it never delivered any data again.
     
     The backup was good. *phew*
   • Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Feb-2022 04:54:36 UTC Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian:

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     @clacke @greypilgrim That reminds me when I was demonstrating RAID-5 with USB drives to students. I simulated a disk failure to show that the data was still available. When adding a new USB drive into the array, another drive in the array failed during resync!

     "And that students is how RAIDs can *still fail* despite redundancies and spare drives. RAID is not a replacement for backups. You do have a backup, right? ... Right???"

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