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04-21-2009, 07:29 AM
saint-francis

First of all.......Why hasn't there been any official word on what has been happening? If there were there would be much less griping from forum members. There should be a post that is stuck and locked describing the problems. That is the largest issue here as I see it. S**t happens to everyone. That's life. But people feel abandoned by the combination of down time and silence from the staff. Personally I didn't loose too much since I don't post too much. Me aside, a good RAID card and a pile of good SAS drives are probably priced comparably to the Intel SSD's. I have a RAID array of SSD's and I have at least two other copies of everything I care about. The array goes ape s**t from time to time. SSD's just aren't ready to be relied on fully yet. And why isn't the forum redundant? Shouldn't there be multiple servers? I'm sure someone here has some server space that they would be willing to donate to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I understand that this is difficult for whoever has to deal with the hardware failures but RAID 5? I didn't think anyone used RAID 5 outside of the home environment any more. Fugger should sue apple for false advertising because this obviously doesn't "just work".
04-21-2009, 08:47 AM
Sparky

Quote:

Originally Posted by saint-francis

First of all.......Why hasn't there been any official word on what has been happening? If there were there would be much less griping from forum members. There should be a post that is stuck and locked describing the problems. That is the largest issue here as I see it. S**t happens to everyone. That's life. But people feel abandoned by the combination of down time and silence from the staff. Personally I didn't loose too much since I don't post too much. Me aside, a good RAID card and a pile of good SAS drives are probably priced comparably to the Intel SSD's. I have a RAID array of SSD's and I have at least two other copies of everything I care about. The array goes ape s**t from time to time. SSD's just aren't ready to be relied on fully yet. And why isn't the forum redundant? Shouldn't there be multiple servers? I'm sure someone here has some server space that they would be willing to donate to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I understand that this is difficult for whoever has to deal with the hardware failures but RAID 5? I didn't think anyone used RAID 5 outside of the home environment any more. Fugger should sue apple for false advertising because this obviously doesn't "just work".

1) before it went down over the weekend, there was a sticky announcement in every section stating there may be some more downtime going on.
2) Fugger made a post in the forum comments stating what happened. He almost always does.
04-21-2009, 08:55 AM
saint-francis

Quote:

Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

1) before it went down over the weekend, there was a sticky announcement in every section stating there may be some more downtime going on.

Woops. I didn't see anything like that.

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2) Fugger made a post in the forum comments stating what happened. He almost always does.

Didn't see that either.

Thanks.

So everyone who is really upset must just be prone to that kind of thing?
04-21-2009, 09:02 AM
Sparky

That's ok those announcements seem to get "lost" up top and ignored - maybe because there are always a couple up there.
04-21-2009, 12:03 PM
Gameman

Sorry, my bad.....;)

it just FELT like a month....:cool::cool::cool:

I missed my Xtreme....:(:(:(
04-21-2009, 01:54 PM
Gautam

For people missing valuable posts, Google cache is a great place to find them. Just type the name of the thread, and it should pop up as one of the first results. Then click on "More results from www.xtremesystems.org" and you should get almost every missing page and post in the thread.
04-21-2009, 02:48 PM
SNiiPE_DoGG

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gautam

For people missing valuable posts, Google cache is a great place to find them. Just type the name of the thread, and it should pop up as one of the first results. Then click on "More results from www.xtremesystems.org" and you should get almost every missing page and post in the thread.

Haha yeah I went to search for project Flow and it came up with a result with a correct cache but when you clicked the link it took you to Duniek LN2 pots :D
04-21-2009, 04:27 PM
Nelly

Ah what a pity, I see the OCZ Blades post in the Xtreme Bandwidth section has gone, was going to check it out again this evening. :(

I can't find it using google cache. :down:
04-21-2009, 04:56 PM
Sparky

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nelly

Ah what a pity, I see the OCZ Blades post in the Xtreme Bandwidth section has gone, was going to check it out again this evening. :(

I can't find it using google cache. :down:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a
04-21-2009, 05:06 PM
saaya

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waterlogged

Yeah, I know the one in March is when Fugger lost 2 HDD's doing the switch to SSD's. MM's post makes it sound like he lost another 2 this time, so I wanted to verify.

really? then i wonder why there hasnt been a warning from him about seagate hdds, thats the worst product quality experience ive heard of to date... and its with enterprise class hardware! which makes it even worse lol :eek:

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Originally Posted by Sandon

Yeah, and you would think with a forum as popular as this one that they would have a good raid controller with raid6 support. In the next month my server will be raid6 (currently raid5). You guys need help with hosting/off-site backup? I would be happy to help/provide it for free if you guys don't have or can't afford an off-site backup for your files/dbs so you never have more than a 24 hour rollback again.

thanks!
i hope charles or other staff will approach you :toast:

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Originally Posted by saint-francis

First of all.......Why hasn't there been any official word on what has been happening? If there were there would be much less griping from forum members. There should be a post that is stuck and locked describing the problems. That is the largest issue here as I see it. S**t happens to everyone. That's life. But people feel abandoned by the combination of down time and silence from the staff. Personally I didn't loose too much since I don't post too much. Me aside, a good RAID card and a pile of good SAS drives are probably priced comparably to the Intel SSD's. I have a RAID array of SSD's and I have at least two other copies of everything I care about. The array goes ape s**t from time to time. SSD's just aren't ready to be relied on fully yet. And why isn't the forum redundant? Shouldn't there be multiple servers? I'm sure someone here has some server space that they would be willing to donate to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I understand that this is difficult for whoever has to deal with the hardware failures but RAID 5? I didn't think anyone used RAID 5 outside of the home environment any more. Fugger should sue apple for false advertising because this obviously doesn't "just work".

yeah i feel exactly the same...

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

2) Fugger made a post in the forum comments stating what happened. He almost always does.

well look at the stats of his anouncement and this thread... :D

the anouncement has 300 reads
this thread has over 2000 reads

there should be a forum wide sticky or a mass pm or email fired off to every user imo... thats at least what id do... its not about making an anouncement, its about everybody knowing about the anouncement, and the latter seems to fail.
04-21-2009, 06:29 PM
Nelly

Quote:

Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:...ient=firefox-a

Thanks, I don't suppose you can access the cached C7 OCZ Blades.

Can't seem to find it, probally not looking the correct way.
04-21-2009, 06:46 PM
Sparky

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Originally Posted by Nelly

Thanks, I don't suppose you can access the cached C7 OCZ Blades.

Can't seem to find it, probally not looking the correct way.

These?

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us
04-21-2009, 07:00 PM
B.E.E.F.

AND the site lost that nice bookmark icon! Now I'm really pissed.
04-21-2009, 07:03 PM
itznfb

easy solution.... RAID10 across 12 drives split in half and push transactions to the backup volume and perform weekend backups with nightly incrementals. all the functionality is point and click within vbulletin.
04-21-2009, 07:05 PM
Sparky

Quote:

Originally Posted by B.E.E.F.

AND the site lost that nice bookmark icon! Now I'm really pissed.

Shows up for me :shrug:
04-21-2009, 08:29 PM
Nelly

Quote:

Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

These?

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us

Thats the one, many thanks again. :)
04-24-2009, 05:59 AM
dominick32

not to be harsh here, but does anyone else think this is a little ridiculous now?
04-27-2009, 07:13 AM
3Z3VH

Quote:

Originally Posted by [XC] itznfb

easy solution.... RAID10 across 12 drives split in half and push transactions to the backup volume and perform weekend backups with nightly incrementals. all the functionality is point and click within vbulletin.

I am not sure if you realize how expensive a mirror of an array is...
05-19-2009, 10:47 AM
Xeon th MG Pony

I usualy do 2 raid 5 then mirror them, not as sophistaced but usualy saves yer rear in such cases & FYI if you're using any thing less then 4 drives with a hot spare your raid 5 is worthles to protect you! 4 drives gives max performance and the hot spare is the life saver! then all ways have a cold spare on the shelf. (I haze no budget either! best solution I found)

Good to see things are alive again non the less.

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