Now you know why I don't use SSDs for storage.
Google Reader replacement 'Old Reader' crashes
The Darwinian derby to determine which RSS-reading service would replace Google Reader as the world's dominant feed-wrangler may just have produced its first extinction event, after theoldreader.com choked on its recently-enlarged database and crashed. The Old Reader's schtick is that it looks and behaves pretty much exactly …
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 07:07 GMT Peter Mount
same here
Exactly. Ssd's are fine for reads but I wouldn't trust them for storing data. Caches maybe but the database?
The closest I have for a ssd is where my homemade nas boots from a USB flash drive. It works & I can restore quickly if it fails. Main storage still traditional disk's & raid 5.
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 11:54 GMT Mikey
Re: Data Management 101
Copying rather than moving is fine, but in this case the drives themselves went to crap, so either method would have ended up with the same result.
The main difference here is that it's easy to retrieve data with existing equipment or ressurect an old HDD with a board transplant, but with an SSD you're rather more buggered. You MAY somehow be able to read the flash if it's only the controller that's farked, with careful place ent of probes and an external controller. Good luck replacing any BGA chips though. Always back up an SSD to an HDD, otherwise things are going to be very, very expensive, very quickly...
I'll stick to my good old spinning rust for now, I think...
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 11:09 GMT Jim 59
over a terabyte
Hmmm. Seems a very small amount of data. Wonder if it was a type on the release.
Of the readers I tested, none are as good as GR. Includes Feedly, Firefox Sage, Firefox live bookmarks, The Old Reader, Digg reader, even OwnCloud. It's not just useability, there are problems with missing articles and slow updates too. But they are getting better (apart form OR)
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 16:38 GMT AceRimmer
Re: over a terabyte
"Hmmm. Seems a very small amount of data. Wonder if it was a type on the release."
How much data were you expecting?
I know the world and his dog keeps bleating on about "big data" but for the majority of companies a Terabyte of database data is actually quite a lot of data
Given that they only have 375k users that still equates to 2 -3 mb per user or approx 8000 rows of uncompressed data
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 11:49 GMT Andrew Jones 2
I'm now running Tiny Tiny RSS on an inhouse Ubuntu server, I own the data, it has an Android app and a Chrome extension - but it's my service. For any Ubuntu users out there - there is now a PPA for it (but I installed it manually) - I don't need to worry about this service going belly-up or being discontinued.
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Wednesday 24th July 2013 21:42 GMT JohnSaunders12
Wait for OldReader
I recommend that you wait for few days on OldReader. I have been using both OldReader and SilverReader for several weeks.
Now I will only use silverreader.com for few days. SilverReader is similar to OldReader but little faster.
Still I will also wait for OldReader for come back.
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Thursday 1st August 2013 11:14 GMT Fira
I'll take my feeds and change the service. The OldReader is coming back - good and good luck, but!!! Users are not volleyball balls to be passen by from here to there and back. Any devs team enthusiastic or professional must remember - people rely and depend on their service/product.
Ofering service for hundreds of thousands you cannot say today "Oops, we are tired, we are in depression and we close" and ask for forgivnes the very next day.
Try to solve the problem. if it's impossible than explain it to users.
I've recently tried http://feedreader.com/online/ and I'm going to come back to it. Not brilliant but decent enough.