Got out some old SCSI drives yesterday including a Seagate Barracuda of about 2GB I think. It's a noisy beast.
Posts by jms222
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Portable drive, 5TB capacity. Hmm, there's something fishy here
World-leading heart hospital 'very, very lucky' to dodge ransomware hit
Microsoft puts Windows Updates on a diet with 'differential downloads'
Smart Meter rollout delayed again. Cost us £11bn, eh?
Low-power transistors hint at alternative to battery bonfires
Small fry Scale offers single-node HCI boxen for the ROBO crowd
Accountant falls for sexy Nigerian email scammer, gives her £150k he cheated out of pal
Microsoft: Watch out millennials for evil Security Essentials
Aussie trams equivalent to 30 skateboarding rhinos
'Biggest ever' Linux release
Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds
IoT botnet swells
Ebay
It doesn't help that vendors of complete shite, not just IoT stuff can't be given bad reviews or rather Ebay make it incredibly difficult to do so (after n days but not after m days after resolution and never about the product itself).
It's about time Ebay (not so much Amazon who at least take stuff back no question) took more responsibility. Start with 18650 cells with impossible capacities. Make sellers declare original manufacturer and part number (bearing in mind these cells are typically recycled which I don't disagree with but no reason why they can't be made to declare current measured capacity and ESR) and stop new vendors popping up selling the same stuff.
Microsoft keeps schtum as more battery woes hit Surface sufferers
Probe boffins: Two balls deep in Uranus's ring
NHS patients must be taught to share their data, says EU lobby group
I object to having to pay tens of pounds to get copies of my data out of my local hospital when the pharmas don't. Well not that amount scaled up anyway.
It's supposedly anonymised but you don't have to get much publicly available information (for example news that somebody was involved in a road traffic accident) to connect everything up.
HPE tops in tape. Yes, tape is still a thing
Why OpenCAPI is a declaration of interconnect fabric war
What is all this obsession with cores ? It's even worse than the MHz thing that went before it.
Are people so F£$%^ing stupid these days they don't realise that unless you have something useful to do with them you're wasting money on many things including 1) Silicon 2) powering them 3) powering all the complicated cache-coherency logic 4) being slowed down because of interconnect complexity 5) being slowed by software locks
Intel is shipping an ARM-based FPGA. Repeat, Intel is shipping an ARM-based FPGA
RIP Samsung 'Death Note' 7
SSDs in the enterprise: It's about more than just speed
FreeBSD 11.0 lands, with security fixes to FreeBSD 11.0
Don't panic, but a 'computer error' cut the brakes on a San Francisco bus this week
Ofcom finds 'reasonable grounds' that KCOM failed to maintain 999 services
Sudden explosion in reports of exploding phones
M.2 SSD drive format is under-rated. So why no enterprise arrays?
Regardless of standards you can't hot-swap something on a PCB without risking bad stuff such as shorting things out. So definite no no for enterprise.
Oh and PLEASE sort your units out. You mean bytes not bits surely. For a publication that pushes stories on storage so frequently at least get your units right.
Crusty Cat 5e/6 cables just magically sped up to 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps
Lenovo: Entry-level 1U pitch
Samsung: And for my next trick – exploding WASHING MACHINES
Samsung intros super-speedy consumer SSDs, 'fastest M.2s ever'
Ubuntu tees up OpenStack on IBM's iron
Sick of Southern Rail? There's a crowdfunding site for that
VW Dieselgate engineer sings like a canary: Entire design team was in on it – not just a few bad apples, allegedly
Linus Torvalds won't apply 'sh*t-for-brains stupid patch'
It's not so much there aren't any drivers but device support either exists in the ever growing huge bloated mess of kernel (including the one that this article is about) and userland packages. Or it doesn't.
There is NO mechanism for plugging something in the the machine going to find drivers for it based on the IDs (USB or PCI) or the device. Like MS Windows does. Nor is there anything in the pipeline that does that but I will accept correction.