twotwotwo

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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   SMART says the years-old, low-capacity MLC SSD in this computer is 5% worn out. SSDs in RAID arrays at work are getting a much heavier workout and handling it fine. You can use smartctl or the equivalent to check the media wearout indicator
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   You can use smartctl or equivalent to see the media wear indicator. But SSD firmware bugs have been a larger problem in practice than wearout, and MWI won't help you with them; keep backups.
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   - Smartctl has a media wearout indicator if you want to check. Most likely, you'll check it after months of use, see that you've used like 3% of the write capacity, and then not sweat it. - Firmware reliability sadly has been an issue. So,
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   zombo.com.
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   I don't know that X86 can't grow over time (servers) but I think you're spot on that dirt cheap chips, and big companies that want to keep them dirt cheap, are in some sense Intel's deeper problem. Intel could make up any given technical ga
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   Ah, it is indeed cheaper, but I'm getting different specific numbers: 240 cents/88 ecu-hr == 2.7 cents/ecu-hr on demand; less if reserved or spot. cc2.8xl is also in the Oregon and Ireland regions, but not others as far as I can tell. 1) Fu
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   Yep: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/2/an-epic-tripadviso...
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   Did the math on how to get cheaper ECU-hours from Amazon. Prices below are per ECU-hour, not per instance-hour; '1yr' is the one-year reserved instance price with the upfront cost amortized; 'spot' is the spot price in the US West (Oregon)
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   by twotwotwo 14y ago

   - No one pick a host based on a single microbenchmark, please. Game out what your app would need to achieve your target performance level with what each host offers. Amazon still might lose (sounds like that happened with TripAdvisor) but a
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    by twotwotwo 14y ago

    Lore Sjoberg, all-around awesome and hilarious guy (anyone remember the Brunching Shuttlecocks?), is in a van. A random recent post: http://loresjoberg.com/view/monkeyconversation/
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    by twotwotwo 14y ago

    "There's nothing magic about ARM" is right. Atom, for example, seems competitive as a low-power architecture now that Intel's really trying to get into the mobile market. The open question is whether cheap power-focused cores, from any make