Re: leaving computer on 24/7

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 03:05:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 23:53, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman (nnorman@incanus.net) wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Ah, the old "whack the drive case with a screwdriver handle" trick :-)
> > 
> > How brutal!
> > 
> > No, I pull the drives, give them a bunch of rapid half-spins about the
> > major platter axis, and try powering them up.  Once they spin up, I let
> > them run for a few minutes, then put them back on their rails in the
> > case.  Usually they'll spin up again immediately after.
> 
> Gak!  That could get a bit time-consuming if your SAN has a dozen TB.
> (With 75GB disks, that would be 160 spindles...)

For that, I'd get the VBM.

There's a champaigne (er, "sparkling wine") vintner down the road.
Turns out that what you want to do with champaigne over the course of a
month or so is "rittle" the bottles:  turn them a quarter turn, then
increase the bottle angle (cork down) about 15% as fermentation
completes.  This sweeps various debris and yeast by-product to the
bottom (top) of the bottle, where it can be removed prior to final
corking.

Manual rittling only goes so fast, so a set of machines was tasked for
the job.  Each holds something like eight cases, each with a gazillion
bottles of champaigne.  And the whole assemblage tilts.  The name stands
for "very big machine".  It's fairly impressive.

I suppose that those of you working for hardware-lifetime-extension
optimizing shops might propose mounting your RAID packs in a similar
structure.



The same facility has recently begun drop-testing Scottish tourists.  To
date, the test has been unsuccessful.

Peace.

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