@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

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@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@pmoncho said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

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@Pete-S said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Connect Power Disable SATA Drive to Dell Inspiron 5676:

Confirmed, snipping the orange wire (I needed help as I can't see orange) did the job, drive showed up immediately.

Congrats! I wasn't sure you'd be up for the task. A lot of people are afraid to make permanent changes to their equipment.

You can't believe how much pushback I got from @Dominica and @pchiodo about snipping a simple cable on a $2 SATA extension part! For me, it was a no brainer once knowing what it was. But they were up for spending hundreds of dollars to avoid snipping that wire. And it isn't even hard wired to the power supply or anything it's literally just a SATA extension piece! lol Like $2 tops if you don't shop around.

I would have been with @Dominica and @pchiodo on this. Electric scares me. I would think snipping the wire would cause a spark while I wasn't home and come home to a few burning cinders. 🙂

That was mentioned as a concern. lol

FFS people need to just STFU if they don’t know how electricity works.

That was exactly my point and why I wouldn't have done it. As for STFU about well, that is where we differ. Those concerns could be alleviated with an explanation of why it would not be an issue.

For electrons to flow you need a circuit. If you cut the wire you don't have a circuit anymore and because of that you don't have any electricity flowing. Since there is no electricity, there can't be any sparks.

If you just cut the wire but don't remove it, then one end can come in contact with the chassis and then you have a circuit and electricity flowing.

Modern switched power supplies (as in your computer) have short-circuit protection. So nothing would happen except that 3.3V will go down to 0V. So if there is anything in your computer that need 3.3V power from the power supply, it will not get it.

If you had something else producing 3.3V (for instance a battery) and you'd short-circuit that, then it can get cause a fire. Just because it's only 3.3V doesn't mean anything.

And sparks is not a problem unless you're in an explosive environment. The problem is that a short-circuit cause increased current running in the wire. That current will turn into heat. That heat causes things to melt and catch fire. And that's how you burn down a house.

Also nice to know is that any electrical circuit inside a computer is low voltage, 12V or below. It can't kill you no matter what you do. It's the same voltage as you have in an ordinary car battery.

The only way to get into trouble with a computer is by disassembling the power supply. There you have lethal voltage.

Thank you for the explanation. Very helpful.

@connorsoliver said in An Overview of Storage Devices - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

What did he mean when he said there's only a limited number or writes on a USB flash drive.

So this is a small mistake on the A+ material. They are making assumptions about the storage media based on the communications protocol. But it's based on very common things. A standard USB flash drive using a flash memory technology that "wears out" as you write to it, but essentially never wears out as you read it.

So the way that a USB stick is "meant to be used" is that you store things on it and read it a lot. You can change it, but it isn't meant for constant writes.

So under "normal" use, USB sticks last a long time. But it you write to it constantly (like when using it as swap) you will cause the memory chip(s) to die quickly.

@jmoore said in Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018:

@LilAng Like 20 years ago I thought they were the best.

Twenty years ago, they were.

@scottalanmiller said in Seagate Shows Off World's Fastest Hard Drive:

That's true, we are definitely getting to the point where we need faster ways to get data on and off of all drives.

For sure, the data processing boards need a change too.

Maybe they just weren't ready for production yet.

I had a similar problem with a Lenovo laptop (again purchased before SuperFish). The user finally agreed to have me send it for service, no issues reported since then. It clearly had a hardware problem as I rebuild the OS at least twice before sending in for service.

Looking at this as a replacement.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Lay-Flat-Docking-EC-DFLT/dp/B00LS5NFQ2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483744282&sr=8-3&keywords=sata+drive+dock&refinements=p_72%3A2661618011

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I usually just power off the server, yank all the drives out, mix em all up and put em back in. I also enjoy testing my backups quite often.

I'll have to try your method next time!

😉

@nadnerB said:

@scottalanmiller said:

WD's own devices use RE drives in RAID 5.

I'd still pass.

Yeah, it is less than an ideal design, especially when they could easily have made R6 and R10 options.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@Bob-Beatty said:

@Breffni-Potter I agree with everything Scott says, with the exception of stopping at strange bars in the middle of the jungle at 10:00 at night.

Are you honestly telling me it was just the "one" thing you disagreed with? 🙂

I suspect there might be a few more bar visits you would object to if you cast your mind back.

haha! I.. cant.... remember too many bar visits with Scott, or I may agree with your comment... 😛

The idea that causing a system to fail would be routine maintenance is just.... I have no idea. Imagine crashing a car, just a little, to cause the airbags to deploy so that you get fresh ones installed once every 50,000 miles. That just doesn't make sense.

@thecreativeone91 Ditto, though I recall one particular intel chipset (945? low end P4 skt468/775) that would consistently barf when this was attempted.

Thanks!

@thecreativeone91 said:

Seems appropriate

Youtube Video

Looks like a lot of fun!

Commodity, replaceable nodes. That's the common new approach. Nearly everyone is doing that today. It is tough for the small businesses, though, where they are lucky to have a single node. Works great when you are replacing old, legacy UNIX machines or something but when you are replacing a single, cheap node you generally can't find the budget to go to two, cheaper nodes.

@Texkonc said:

That is like saying Raid is a type of backup..... 😄
Sorry that I am late to the party, my bus broke down.

Whoa, Tex is here!

Nice. Needed this today too for some planning discussions.

@Carnival-Boy said:

I've never heard of a hiring manager blacklisting people just because of some education they did. That sucks.

It's that it is a horrific education - one that exists simply for the purpose of "buying" a degree. It's not the education that they are blacklisted for but the way that they tried to get it (or what they are trying to pass off as an education.) There are two concerns. One is "why did they choose that school" - is it because they didn't want the riggers of a normal school or can't handle it? Or is it because they aren't doing proper research first? Neither is a good indicator. Those school cost a lot generally and provide questionable educations - often pretending to be true universities while actually being trade schools or worse, certification boot camps. This marks them as "fake" schools and people who attend them appear to be trying to get an education without going through the real process.

At best, it's just an indication of poor decision making. At worst it is an indication of dishonesty. If someone makes the mistake of going to one of these schools, they can be in the same boat as me and just take their education off of their resume. It only negatively impacts people who try to pass it off as a university education.

Figured warranty and/or RVS (Rotation Vibration Safeguard) would have been mentioned, as well.

Consider warranty to be an OEM's confidence in their device. Bit on RVS, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/bad-bad-bad-vibrations/896

Cost math on price can be interesting. As an example, a device getting twice the value out of a set of Red drives vs RE drives. SMBs would be more of the mindset to take the lowest price (yeah, yeah, not enterprise).