What has made you Angry Today???????

[Hodge]

Just moved house and the bloody power switches off for an hour then comes backk on for an hour without throwing any safety switches or circuit breakers, its done this six times since yesterday and its driving me nuts.

Where abouts are you mate? And when you moved in was there power connected?
It could be a fault with the meter and the power retailer remotely attempting to switch you on?

[lhurley]

What's a raid system? Is that solid state drives?

Raid is when multiple hard drives are used to store data. The idea being that if 1 of the drives fails, the data isn't lost as it's also on the other drives. There's various ways to do raid, but that's the idea behind it.

A solid state drive is like a big USB drive or sd card. A normal hard drive has a spinning disk where as a solid state drive uses flash memory to store data. Solid state drives are substantially quicker as the computer doesn't need to "search" for the data

[Drewboyaus]

Solid state drives are substantially quicker as the computer doesn't need to "search" for the data

Yes but still relatively expensive for large volumes of storage. Strangely, they are also a little less reliable for long term storage and tend to fail quicker than a traditional magnetic disc. Best deployed for a partition where the OS and programs reside.

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[MEGOMONSTER]

First day back at work tomorrow.

[jay see]

First day back at work tomorrow.

So just thinking about it has made you angry.

[mudski]

Yes but still relatively expensive for large volumes of storage. Strangely, they are also a little less reliable for long term storage and tend to fail quicker than a traditional magnetic disc. Best deployed for a partition where the OS and programs reside.

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They are getting cheaper by the day now Drew. A 120 ssd can be had for around 80$. The best way for desktop pcs is to run an sad for your operating system and some of the programs you use a lot, then another old Gen drive for everything else. I run two 128gb ssd's in raid 0 ( 2 drive mirrored to run together for speed purposes only) for my operating system, another two 240gb ssd's in raid 0 to store my games then an old Gen hard drive of 2tb for all my prOn storage
Raid 0 has zero redundancy so if one of the two ssd's fail, you lose the lot of both drives. If you run large storage systems, what raid can offer, not raid zero though, for redundancy is really good. My NAS, for instance. Has four 4tb drives running raid. It has a fifth drive sitting there so if one dies on me, it will switch over to the spare drive and rebuild the lost data to that drive.
Sorry for getting off topic there. As for them failing quicker, it's like anything, you get what you pay for I suppose. I haven't had an ssd fail on me yet and I have been using them since the first 20gb ssd was released and it was 150$. I still have that sad too.

[TPC]

First day back at work tomorrow.

Heading up the river tomorrow. Ha Ha

[Agronaught]

Hurt my back manovering the deep cycle battery in the car. Instead of moving the car to a spot with better access I twisted my back.

Stupid stupid stupid.

[threedogs]

Hurt my back manovering the deep cycle battery in the car. Instead of moving the car to a spot with better access I twisted my back.

Stupid stupid stupid.

Hot and cold packs as hot as you can stand and an aspirin to get the swelling down.
But hot and cold packs work wonders

[coop]

Had a sparky out last night and found out that some dick head had put two wires in the fuse box in the wrong place it turn out they had the power wire in where the off peak hot water wire was supposed to go and the hot water wire where the main power wire was meant to go, the sparky had it fixed in 10 minutes, talk about confusing, all good now.