[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Breaking into a Windows 8 COmputer

[John Bartow]

Agreed. Thumb drives are check out line candy quality. Because you can actually buy them in the check out line at many stores 😉

John B

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From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 7:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Breaking into a Windows 8 COmputer

Thumb drives are a different kettle of fish.  Far less reliable AFAICT.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 7:24 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, good for you, JC. My luck has not fared so lucky. However, I 
> have learned over the years to make a DVD from the thumb drives at 
> least once a week. That seems to work.
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 7:17 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They faired really well.  I used Samsungs so they were high quality.  
> > We never had an SSD failure, though we had several rotating rust failures.
> I
> > ran Raid6 though (for the rust drives) with spares that could fire 
> > up and replace the failed drives.  In about 10 years I never lost data.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 12:48 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > IIRC you ran some heavy SQL Servers on SSDs quite a few years ago. 
> > > How
> > did
> > > they fair?
> > >
> > > John B
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=
> > winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > On Behalf Of John Colby
> > > Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2022 11:45 AM
> > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues < 
> > > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Breaking into a Windows 8 
> > > COmputer
> > >
> > > Notice basically not enough samples to mean much.
> > >
> > > I do love their site though.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 3:03 AM Gustav Brock via dba-Tech < 
> > > dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > The real-life numbers from Backblaze:
> > > >
> > > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2021/
> > > > The SSD Edition: 2021 Drive Stats Review (backblaze.com)< 
> > > > https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-revi
> > > > ew/>
> > > >
> > > > /gustav
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