Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/29/2015 04:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > are you sure? Asus boards usually support ECC (at least their AMD boards > do) and many Gigabyte boards support ECC without telling about it > (gigabyte user forums can usually answer that). > Hmm, I went and looked some more into this, but al

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2015 um 22:57 schrieb Daniel Frey: > On 07/29/2015 08:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: >>> On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming com

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/29/2015 08:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: >> On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by >>> just becoming completely unacessible. >>> >>> dmesg errors? >> Fill

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: > On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by >> just becoming completely unacessible. >> >> dmesg errors? > Filled with /dev/sda errors when it "failed". oh the joy. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by > just becoming completely unacessible. > > dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda errors when it "failed". > > are you using ecc ram? Nope. > > if not - maybe, just ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.07.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: > Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one > I've lost. > > On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last > time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, > all that check

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/25/2015 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 25 July 2015 08:49:35 Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I'm going to convert vixie-cron and anacron to cronie with the anacron USE >> set as well, so I can set the MAILFROM var in crontab as when machines email >> me I can't figure out which machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 July 2015 08:49:35 Daniel Frey wrote: > I'm going to convert vixie-cron and anacron to cronie with the anacron USE > set as well, so I can set the MAILFROM var in crontab as when machines email > me I can't figure out which machine it came from. That's odd. When vixie-cron is run a

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread Daniel Frey
On 07/25/2015 05:12 AM, lee wrote: > Daniel Frey writes: > >> Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one >> I've lost. > > + Buy good hardware. > + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). > + Do not put swap partitions on single disks,

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-25 Thread lee
Daniel Frey writes: > Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one > I've lost. + Buy good hardware. + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). + Do not put swap partitions on single disks, either. + Disks always come in pairs at least.

[gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

2015-07-17 Thread Daniel Frey
Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, all that checked out and I found out I couldn't ssh in to the fronten