[00:22] this maybe fun [00:22] i got a 403 error for a file i was downloading [00:22] i retryed and it worked [00:23] :P [00:24] 2 403 for a file [02:01] Hey guys, for harddrives, how far do you go to ensure the drive is good before writing to it? Do you zero it out? single or multiple passes? [02:01] Currently I am buying 2TB drives, from Seagate and WD, and I mirror them. So the data is spread across different manufacturers. [02:01] I won't go 4TB due to high DOA rates. [02:02] You read reports about drives going bad after 6 months. [02:03] Currently I havn't been zeroing them out, and just copying files to them... but a failure could be looming off in the distance. Since I just write data to the drives and power them down (all in external enclosures and static Weibe-Tech cases). [02:03] I was thinking of going 3-tier redundancy, by adding Toshiba into the mix. [02:03] Just wanted to get some of your all thoughts on the topic. [02:33] I personally don't do anything but load them out as needed. I think there's a software tool available for testing aspects of the drive. [02:33] You may be interested in failure times, http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/ [03:15] Is this for some specific thing? [03:26] backups of archived data, video, websites, articles, scans, etc [03:29] 1 primary, and then 1 mirror, for each data-set, across drives from 2 different manufacturers is my current system [09:58] Assume -every drive you buy- will fail at some point, and structure your affairs to ensure this causes you no problem. [10:00] Anything that's important, anything you want to keep, ensure you always have more than one copy. [10:00] more than two [10:00] always [10:00] better still [10:00] sod ensures that if you only have two, the other has already died. [10:00] the moment you only have one working copy, is the moment it'll fail [10:00] 42 [10:01] :SD [10:01] :D [10:01] Just finishing off a 3TB drive rescue at the moment, as it happens. [10:01] Foolishly, was the one drive I hadn't backed up. [10:01] Don't try this at home. I am a professional. [10:01] see? [10:02] We shall call this Smileys Law [10:02] the number of backups = the number of failures you'll have + 1 [10:02] n(GOOD_BACKUP -1) = n(Failures) [10:03] I remember when I lost the hard drive on my first PC... [10:03] a whole 32mb of data, gone! [10:03] hehe [10:03] I send emails bigger than that, today. [10:03] Same here, but 10 [10:03] i remember when i accidently hit rm /music [10:04] I remember my first look at coruption, commador64 and a copy of booty on tape [10:04] stopped loading properly :( [10:05] antomatic: 32mb? that's like one whole letter in office 2014 ;) [10:06] (sobs) all those precious .txt files, painstakingly downloaded at 1200bps! (wah!) [10:06] Felt like a disaster at the time. Good lesson to learn, though. [10:08] Oh! And there was that 6tb Quantum Fireball that sort of stopped working when I moved 20 years ago [10:09] Possibly due to it being so large I couldn't properly mount it inside the desktop PC which I then boxed and rolled up the stairs while moving. [10:09] Can't imagine why that failed. (duh.) [10:10] wait.. 6tb? No way. 6gb. [10:12] Anyway, back up your data. Even if you're not stupid, drives still fail. [11:50] i prefer to stick to the 321 rule Smiley :p [11:51] 3 copies, 2 different formats and atleast 1 on a remote location [12:09] remember to test restore [12:09] yep! [12:09] :p [13:10] 3 levels of folders, 2 misleadings names, 1 incredible alibi as to why that ended up on your hard drive and it wasn't you [13:13] hahhaa [14:38] you guys will be getting world weather from cnn video grab [14:49] currently I multi-volume rar with recovery record, and sfv all data [14:49] and I batch check the sfv's with wxchksums [14:50] although just default recovery record size, which isn't all that just [14:50] all that much* [14:50] I was thinking of doing hardcopy bluray burns but man... already sitting on 1,000 cd's from my college days [14:51] kinda don't want to be back in that situation lol [14:57] so about 700gb of cds [15:15] upload all the CD's! [15:23] hmm I guess I dual-layer bluray option would be best for a 3rd tier [15:23] 8TB at 160 discs, costing around 450-500 [15:23] some that i heard about on the buck sexton show: http://freebeacon.com/politics/audio-hillary-clinton-speaks-of-defense-of-child-rapist-in-newly-unearthed-tapes/ [15:24] i grabbed the youtube video [16:46] [10:10] <@SketchCow> 3 levels of folders, 2 misleadings names, 1 incredible alibi as to why that ended up on your hard drive and it wasn't you [16:46] virus [16:46] blame it on virus [16:48] or viruses [18:50] Good alibi [18:59] hey SketchCow [19:00] i need to find a way to grab all of cdx index of msnbc.com [19:00] using the cdx search that your have [19:01] i only ask cause i'm finding more videos i don't have [19:01] also i REALLY would like to grab everything in msnbc.com/modules/ folder [19:02] its only blocked by robots cause they redesign the web site with drupal [20:09] so, apparently Nvidia doesn't like the Dolphin emulator: https://twitter.com/delroth_/status/480440884128149505 (they force all Optimus users to use the Intel card instead of the Nvidia card) [20:52] i hope 2k2 cnbc news clip [20:52] *i got a HOPE 2k2 cnbc news clip [20:53] there talked about the usnews.com website getting hacked on the eve of that event [21:49] anyways i'm finding more clips of nbc news from 2002