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laur.ie
Personal blog · laur.ie/blogsystemshardware
laur.ie is a personal blog at laur.ie about systems and hardware. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Why I'll be letting Nagios live on”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link laur.ie posts on SSD failures in datacenters, Nagios monitoring and hard disk firmware. One commenter calls the Nagios response article good, and others cite the SSD post as an example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'll be letting Nagios live on2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-04
- SSDs: A gift and a curse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-02
What Hacker News says?
> Don't all enterprise SSDs come with their own backup capacitors? Yes, but the cost of such drives makes rolling the dice with consumer grade drives appealing to some[1]. From the same thread, here's a word of warning from a Stackoverflow devops engineer[2] wrt to lack of capicitors on consumer grade drives and the perfect storm that can occur when UPS goes down in a power failure (unlike with spinning disks hardwa…
Comment linking /blog/2015/06/ssds-a-gift-and-a-curse/
on “SSD Failures in Datacenters”Submitted SSDs: A gift and a curse as a story · 277 points
HN discussionGood response article: https://laur.ie/blog/2014/02/why-ill-be-letting-nagios-live-...
Comment linking /blog/2014/02/why-ill-be-letting-nagios-live-on-a-bit-longer-thank-you-very-much/
on “Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)”Submitted Why I'll be letting Nagios live on as a story · 44 points
HN discussionI can assure you it would be an operational nightmare for many medium to large companies to have to have technicians open up computers to flip a switch on the hundreds or thousands of harddrives whenever they need a firmware upgrade (and it's more common than you think). See https://laur.ie/blog/2015/06/ssds-a-gift-and-a-curse/ for an example of the pain of being unable to flash yourself: "An awesome contractor for…
Comment linking /blog/2015/06/ssds-a-gift-and-a-curse/
on “Surviving reformats by infecting the hard disk firmware”