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Question of the Day: What is your employer's plan for the 30 June protests?
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The_Unnamed
WUD FTW
Not really safer. You just doubled your chance of having a drive failure but you then halved the amount of stuff you will lose
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Not really safer. You just doubled your chance of having a drive failure but you then halved the amount of stuff you will lose
Avinesh halved his/her chances of drive failure (in terms of risk management, not mathematics)).
The_Unnamed
WUD FTW
Avinesh halved his/her chances of drive failure (in terms of risk management, not mathematics)).
He now has 2 drives that can fail instead of 1. :erm: Unless he is going to run them in RAID 1??
Avinesh halved his/her chances of drive failure (in terms of risk management, not mathematics)).
I disagree, by buying 2 drives, he just bought 2 lottery tickets to the drive failure draw. thats 2 chances of winning. doubled his chances. 2.
Risk Management against mathematics - lol.
I thought risk management is based on mathematics.
risk score, 1 drive setup - risk score = chance of drive loss (1) * data loss (100%) = 1 * 1 = 1
risk score, 2 drive setup = chance of drive loss (2) * data loss (50%) = 2 * 0.5 = 1
I must admit i would have thought that buying 2 drives was safer, (without any raid) than 1, but mr unnamed makes alot of sense.
With 1 drive and 1 copy of the data, if the drive fails, you've lost your data. With 2 drives and 2 copies of your data, plus a high probability that they won't fail simultanesouly, you've reduced the chances of losing your data. Losing a drive is less important than losing your data
Budza
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Apples and oranges. All depends on if data is mirrored or not, sounds like it's not...
Synaesthesia
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If you use one as backup and one as main you basically will never suffer any data loss at all. Since then both would have to break at the same time.
If you use both as main storage, then yeah, you are increasing your chances of data loss.
Moral of the story: Drives break. Back up.
If you use both as main storage, then yeah, you are increasing your chances of data loss.
Moral of the story: Drives break. Back up.
The_Unnamed
WUD FTW
CrazYmonkeY159
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LG 23" LED Backlit Monitor for R1899 @ Computers Only
1920x1080 maximum resolution
Contrast Ratio 5 000 000:1
HDMI/DVI/DSUB
High Brightness 250cd/m² (typ.)
Typ. Response Time: 5ms
Bargain or not?
1920x1080 maximum resolution
Contrast Ratio 5 000 000:1
HDMI/DVI/DSUB
High Brightness 250cd/m² (typ.)
Typ. Response Time: 5ms
Bargain or not?
Esquire PE
I went to Esquire PE more than a month ago to order something.. was told I should make an account to order (and that they were unable to help me until i did so,which is completely understandable), so I signed up.
It's been a month and I have still received no response...
I went to Esquire PE more than a month ago to order something.. was told I should make an account to order (and that they were unable to help me until i did so,which is completely understandable), so I signed up.
It's been a month and I have still received no response...
Budza
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My sign up wasn't smooth. They're busy, we're misers.
Just send another mail asking about the progress. Sitting and waiting or complaining here won't help.
After my 'reminder' the account was sorted. Took 4 working days.
Just send another mail asking about the progress. Sitting and waiting or complaining here won't help.
After my 'reminder' the account was sorted. Took 4 working days.
FFS can't u guys complain about this stuff on another thread? Or just PM the Esquire dude.
We have/did hence this discussion
McGuywer
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Pada
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Prophecy Shop has a few amazing specials on at this moment, but stock may be very limited: http://www.prophecy.co.za/featured_products.php
TheBadMadMan
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Any 2.5" portable hard drive specials? im on the hunt for a nice 1TB drive.
D4N
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PCint has a 1TB 2.5" portable HDD going for R 1,043 incl
OneDayOnly have a 3.5" 2TB for R999 today. It's not a 2.5", but still that's pretty sharp pricing. Has a Western Digital wd20eads inside that goes for up to R2200 on Jump...
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