Intel 910 Enterprise SSD failing

[Charles Wirth]

An Intel 910 SSD has failed us and caused about 25 reboots and many hours of down time.

I changed firmware, lowered speed, wiped disk, and added more cooling... nothing helped

Its an ES drive, I tried to save it.

/sad

[[XC] Oj101]

Not cool

For interest sake, what hardware is XS running off of? I'd LIKE to hear it's the second rig mentioned in your sig with some fat LN2 pots but I know it's going to be a lot more boring than that

[[XC] Lead Head]

Man, you should just offload XS to a real hosting service. XS's downtime is atrocious. Every time it does down for hours like that, it just kills the forum more and more.

[BenchZowner]

Man, you should just offload XS to a real hosting service. XS's downtime is atrocious. Every time it does down for hours like that, it just kills the forum more and more.

I agree.

You end up killing your own child, and spending more than you'd spend on a decent hosting package.

[Charles Wirth]

Granted we have some down time, not the end of the world. And no, hosting this database elsewhere is not an option in the near future.

Not that I am going into what I host, but this database has always been problematic and over 12 years constant hardware upgrades every 2 years.

XS server is leftovers from my stuff, right now we are back on the RIVE with 32GB Kingston Lovo, Kingston HyperX boot SSD, 4960X cpu.

You know I do everything, its a burden and please understand that XS will survive for a long time with the invaluable data it contains.

Thanks I appreciate your concern, I know you guys love this site and hate to see it this way but I am pretty sure we will see more down time in the future.

[[XC] Oj101]

I am personally willing to make monthly contributions towards hosting if it'll help? I feel like a crackhead that can't get their fix every time XS goes down

[BenchZowner]

Anyway we can help let us know
Like you said, we love the site

[DashTrash]

Yes, we love the site! Thanks for all your effort Fugger!

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

It would be nice if there was a back up server as a fail over.

What's the load we users put on the server. Is the set up overkill or does it just get by? A back up server would be awesome, even if it ran in a limited fashion. I have some extra low end hardware lying around, but idk if a crappy 1155 i3 would do the job.

Without this site, I think my knowledge of overclocking would be nill & I'd be scared to push CPUs like people are on other sites. How can we help, Fugger?

[tool_462]

I can definitely get you a discount from a guy I used to write for that has a small (defunct) hardware site since his hosting business is so lucrative and successful. He would love to host XS... PM if you are interested, he and I met you at CES in '09 I think...