"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36)
12/04/2015 at 01:50 • Filed to: Computer, Supercomputer, Computers
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"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36)
12/04/2015 at 01:50 • Filed to: Computer, Supercomputer, Computers | 1
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Instructor: “Now let’s talk about RAID storage! Tell me, who - in this class - has a RAID 0 set up on their machines?”
Me: -Looks around, sees no one raising their hands... I’m the only one who raised hand... Hesitantly -
Instructor: “Ah! Good kid! Kind of gutsy for you to run on an unpredictable setup, but you probably wanted performance. What do you have it set up on?
Me: “... M-My laptop? Running three 128GB SSDs?”
Instructor: “... hwat”
He soon gave me the look that said “What on God’s Green Earth are you doing?”
AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
12/04/2015 at 01:53 |
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HAHAHA that instructor sounds like fun.
DrJohannVegas
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
12/04/2015 at 01:58 |
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#WINNI...
CRITICAL DISK FAILURE.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
12/04/2015 at 02:04 |
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I’ve done it once, and one of the drives has failed. Yeah, I knew the risk, but I was in need of storage space and put a bunch of stuff over on that array instead of just using it as a scratch disk for editing as I had originally intended. Never again, especially now that drives are so cheap. On SSDs failure would be less of a concern than it would be on old spinning discs.
I remember a conversation between a couple of people at a talent agency I used to work at. One of the participants was a consultant we brought in for Unix issues, and the other person was a newly-graduated tech with her fresh MSCE. They were having a discussion about RAID5 arrays, and neither of them had a clue what they were talking about. They didn’t know how many drives was the minimum, why you would use RAID5 over other array types, and what data went on the various drives. Blind leading the blind, and these were two alleged experts in their field. It was about that time I left the IT world...
tromoly
> DrJohannVegas
12/04/2015 at 02:05 |
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But he’s running SSDs, they’re so fast it’d crash out at #W...
On second thought the joke doesn’t work out so well. And that’s why I went into Engineering instead of Comedy.
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Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> tromoly
12/04/2015 at 02:08 |
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SWEET MERCIFUL JESUS THIS HURTS MY LUNGS-
wiffleballtony
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
12/04/2015 at 12:09 |
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I’m assuming your professor isn’t familiar with disk parity. What a noob.
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Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> wiffleballtony
12/04/2015 at 12:23 |
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It’s actually done on a laptop... With a little bit of modification. On a machine that wasn’t capable of taking more than 1 physical drive.