@yemski: How are they with RMAing the bricked ones. It sounds like Patriot is the way to go, at least with their Torq SSDs as they give them a 10 year warranty. #intelbrickedssdbug
So is there some sort of compensation for all the people Intel appears to have fucked? I don't have an SSD and I don't know what exactly happens when one is "bricked" but I assume it means it's unusable now. Any thoughts people? #intelbrickedssdbug
@antpwny: I'm going to sound like a Patriot sales rep, but I'm not. I've heard great things about Patriot's Torqx line. They're fast, have a 10 year warranty, and are cheaper than Intel. They look like they're the way to go for the long haul. #intelbrickedssdbug
Rare or not, ability to avoid the circumstances that trigger it or not (now it's publicised, anyway) it's the kind of bug that will freak the public out if they hear it exists. No-one will buy a computer they are vaguely aware might eat EVERYTHING. Microsoft's PR team will call in a lot of favours to get this thing disseminated in a low-level, vague kind of way to as many news outlets as possible.
You are forgetting that not everyone has extra cash to shell out for a time capsule.
And what percentage of users actually back up data on a regular basis. I guarantee you it's under 10%.
The problem isn't "it's not a big deal for ME, because I back my stuff up". It's the problem for all the people that don't.
It's like me saying "I run a RAID 5 storage solution in my desktop, so this Windows bug that wipes one drive isn't a big deal". It's still annoying as hell and puts a lot of stress on the array and the controller.
Not true, every set of data stripes has a parity block stored on a drive that's not in the stripe.
If I have a data A in a 4-drive RAID 5, A is striped over drives 1, 2, and 3. Drive 4 holds a complete parity block so that it can repair the data if any one drive fails. If Drive 4 fails, the controller will use the stripes to repair the parity.
@UnderLoK: yeh, correct, you were spot on with the story.... but the commenter you replied to had changed the story by presenting a hypothetical.... you tricked him by circling back around to the original story. ;)
@timak: So you're solution is for us to spend $400 bucks on another machine? I'm not sure where you're from but this universe is not based on Benjamin Button Economics.
@Zlevee: It's a Simpsons reference. The Movementarians try to recruit Homer, and give his a detailed description of the free seminar at their compound this weekend. And Homer keeps asking them questions. The title of this article is about as detailed as detailed gets, so I wrote this post. I know exactly how you feel.
I don't understand, what is the use behind this....thing? Couldn't you play Quake on an iPhone? I don't understand what about this gadget would make someone go,"I want one of those"?
@mwinfie: Because it's very open and modular, so you can do what you want to do with it, not what Apple, and only Aple, allows you to do. It's a nice change of pace for people who actually have minds of their own, like to create things, tinker with things and have their own opinions about things. In other words, techno-fetishist gadget loving geeks.
On the other hand, there is the iPhone, where Apple decides what apps you're allowed to like. If Apple says you don't like it, then you don't fucking like it!!
I was able to do it over and over different amounts of rotation -- to undo it i just tilted the phone up or to the side so it would move back. I could only do it with individual photos, not the all of them.
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You are forgetting that not everyone has extra cash to shell out for a time capsule.
And what percentage of users actually back up data on a regular basis. I guarantee you it's under 10%.
The problem isn't "it's not a big deal for ME, because I back my stuff up". It's the problem for all the people that don't.
It's like me saying "I run a RAID 5 storage solution in my desktop, so this Windows bug that wipes one drive isn't a big deal". It's still annoying as hell and puts a lot of stress on the array and the controller.
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Not true, every set of data stripes has a parity block stored on a drive that's not in the stripe.
If I have a data A in a 4-drive RAID 5, A is striped over drives 1, 2, and 3. Drive 4 holds a complete parity block so that it can repair the data if any one drive fails. If Drive 4 fails, the controller will use the stripes to repair the parity.
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Just get a PS3 =D
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And what does it cover?
And how much will it be?
But when will it happen?
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On the other hand, there is the iPhone, where Apple decides what apps you're allowed to like. If Apple says you don't like it, then you don't fucking like it!!
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Ah yes.... E.T. the Atari 2600's Killer App.
'course in this case by Killer App I mean the App that killed off the system.
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