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

[John Bartow]

Nor have I. I actually used a physically broken one for awhile back when they were expensive and I had no time to recreate it. I'd bet it still works.

but...

MANY clients have. I think they get very unintentionally abused.

John B

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com> On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 10:04 PM
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And yet...I;ve never had one fail. Go figure...

r

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 7:46 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues < 
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> 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-re
> > > > > vi
> > > > > ew/>
> > > > >
> > > > > /gustav
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