Re: [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently

Condolences on your loss. That did remind me of the time had a sparc 1 (? Pizza box I’m sure but maybe it was a 2) that the drive wouldn’t start spinning up cold (maybe the spindles had just dried their lube up). As long as it was running it worked fine though; if the box lost power it took a whack with a screwdriver handle to jar things into motion and it’d be fine again.

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Re^2: [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently by johngg (Canon) on Apr 04, 2023 at 14:11 UTC
if the box lost power it took a whack with a screwdriver handle to jar things into motion and it’d be fine again. That brings back memories :-) We had six Sparc 1 boxes with dual Quantum Prodrive 104S disks and the advice we had from Sun engineers if they didn't spin up was to lift the pizza box half an inch off the desk and drop it. That usually got things moving again. We had plenty of other Sun boxes over the years, IPCs, IPXs, 2's, 10s etc., but it was only those Quantum drives that ever failed to spin up. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply]

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Re^2: [OT] Reminder: SSDs die silently
by johngg (Canon) on Apr 04, 2023 at 14:11 UTC

if the box lost power it took a whack with a screwdriver handle to jar things into motion and it’d be fine again.

That brings back memories :-)

We had six Sparc 1 boxes with dual Quantum Prodrive 104S disks and the advice we had from Sun engineers if they didn't spin up was to lift the pizza box half an inch off the desk and drop it. That usually got things moving again. We had plenty of other Sun boxes over the years, IPCs, IPXs, 2's, 10s etc., but it was only those Quantum drives that ever failed to spin up.

Cheers,

JohnGG

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