Category Archives: Hardware

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Hard Times

Posted on 8 August, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

I don’t have much luck with hard disks these days. One of the new hard disks in my server started reporting a lot of write errors after only a few days of service. I swapped its place with the other … Continue reading →

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Hard Measures

Posted on 31 July, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

Due to massive problems I had to replace two of the hard disks in my server in a hurry recently. As I had positive experience with Western Digital RAID Edition drives in the past I bought two RE4‑GP WD2002FYPS drives. … Continue reading →

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Redundant Array of Independent Door-stoppers

Posted on 15 July, 2010 by Matthias Scheler

My home server is using RAID 1 to keep all the files stored on it safe. The idea is that if one of the hard disks fails I can just replace it without losing any data. Well, that is the … Continue reading →

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