You Got To Know When to Avoid Them….
You Got To Know When to Avoid Them….
And know when to run…
[Previous commentary removed due to lack of interest.]
Will have four new vote incentives for May 27 at TopWebComics and four more new vote incentives for June 1st on four my webcomics by the end of the day.
Comic Dialogue
(If you have Wii Gloves for you wee little fingers it’s also electronic Braille.)
Hersute the Demon Champion of Demusa: “They… killed him with one blow…”
Reddish Demon: “That… wasn’t really a blow… more like a back hand…”
Red Demon: “they didn’t even have weapons…”
Groenwaddle Personal Demon: “Wake up, big guy….”
Reddish Demon: “You want us to go avenge his death?”
Hersute the Demon Champion of Demusa: “No… given what we just saw, we need to live long enough to tell others about this…”
Red Demon: “I’m so glad you said that… I didn’t want to die…”
Groenwaddle Personal Demon: “I… don’t think he’s waking up…”
Hersute is one smart cookie.
I can’t believe they didn’t grab Hersute and Fuck Her Unconscious.
Always loved the comics from you. Gotta get the random love out of the way first.
A thing about your proposed computer setup though.
RAID is not backup. Say it with me. RAID IS NOT BACKUP. RAID will happily copy any corruption and fuckups from one of your drives going bad. Get a proper external (or cloud) backup drive. Backblaze is mature and well regarded, but there’s plenty of online providers out there.
RAID will help with uptime (pop a new drive in and let it rebuild overnight if you notice one fail,) and RAID10 will give you better read and write speeds to your drives if you’re using spinning rust. If your power supply decides to shit the bed and blow up anything and everything connected to it though, you’re going to be in the same position, just with more expensive parts.
This is like fourth comment that “RAID is a waste of time,” “do back ups, not RAID.’ I DO DO BACK UPS. I’ve done back ups for ten years. When your hard drive dies, the NEW hard drive you’ve had for 1 year and only use for back ups dies, and the 2nd and third back drives die you begin to realize hard drives and back ups are an undependable solution. I have a Google Drive account that things I absolutely cannot replace are saved on. Guess what, GOOGLE DRIVE USES RAID (an actually even more redundant version than normal people can afford), all Cloud Storage uses some form of RAID. Hard drives ALL DIE, using RAID on my home system gives a little bit more data reliability, especially on what the animation will be done, although I’m likely NOT going to animate my comics as there is NO INTEREST from anyone other than me and one other person. But the idea that I should ignore RAID and do back-up only (which every single hard drive crash I had HAPPENED during a back up or restore from back up process) isn’t going to happen, I’ve learned that lesson the hard way.
For 3D, the program looks for 3D objects and morphs in a specific path, back ups don’t keep that path, every time you restore from back up, you have to remap all of those for the 3D program which takes a lot of time to remap. Hence a RAID 10 set up should help mitigate that time cost. Theoretically, that shouldn’t be the case but it is. For years, I’ve known I should look into a local RAID set up for my hard drive system but didn’t invest the time into setting it up and felt a weekly/monthly/quarterly back up system would work, THAT WAS UTTERLY WRONG.
PS: I never realized there were so many people that despised RAID.
I just cannot fathom why you have had so many hard drives die. I cannot remember the last time I did have a hard drive die on me where I had to restore from a backup.
And I have multiple computer setups, with multiple drives, including some RAID setups (which are backed up.) I don’t really despise RAID, I just don’t like that there are people that assume RAID is a backup.
What brand of HD do you use or are you brand agnostic on this? I’ve been mostly using Western Digital the past years (after having bad luck with Seagate), but have recently picked up some Seagate devices.
And yes, Google probably uses RAID-6, with multiple parity drives. That is what we use at work in our SAN, 21 four TB drives, with three of those being parity drives, and then six 3.84 TB SSDs for cache. My biggest problem with RAID is the rebuild time when you have to replace a drive.
Now, I actually keep my important data (often encrypted) in OneDrive, which links to multiple computers, all of which are doing backups of their own.
So honestly, the first thing you need to determine is why you end up with so many failed drives. What is the environment you’re working in? What is the backup software? What is stressing these drives? Or do you just have the absolute worst luck when it comes to drives?
I VERY MUCH for the last six years do not buy a hard drive until I’ve looked up the most recent reliability rankings and always compare the list from three different sources to insure I only buy a drive that listed towards the top on all three. Mostly I’ve been buying Western Digital drives although my RAID will be using Seagate Enterprise drives https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-128MB-3-5-Inch-Enterprise-ST4000NM0035/dp/B01CG0DD1E not the best rated but I was willing to take a risk for RAID drives.
This set up will hopefully get me through the end of the year, with January 2022 allowing me to build and external RAID (the RAID above is internal as the D: drive) to back up my computers to with higher quality Data Center level drives (by January I should be making better money with a full time CS job).
Lucky for them the Dragon soldiers don’t realize just how much they’ve upgraded…
heh, guess I haven’t been noticing the comments in that case. My bad for assuming, and it looks like you’ve done some research on it.
tl;dr: Nah dude, RAID not bad, just RAID not backup. Seen way too many people have problems to leave it unsaid if there’s not a specific mention of backup.
Tips and suggestions and learnin’ from experience on RAID below though. 🙂
Much like GJB, I don’t hate RAID – I run most of the stuff on my own home workstation in RAID1. In fact, I recently spent money on a discrete RAID controller for it because I want to do a wide RAID10 for a working drive and my on-board controller can’t handle it. I do RAID for performance and uptime though – I hate my workstation being down, and I really hate rebuilding it and reinstalling everything. A bit extra to not have to do this is well worth it.
Weird tip from working in datacenters for 10 years – get different brands of drive for each “half” of the RAID10*. One of the most common issues I’ve had with RAID (and really, why most people who’ve been working with it natter on about “omg raid not backup”) is simultaneous or near-simultaneous failures of drives that were from the same batch – whether it’s drive corruption or outright failure. So based on what you’ve said, you might want to get 2 WD Blacks (if I remember the DC-quality ones correctly) and 2 Seagate Enterprise drives, and make sure it stripes across the brand and mirrors cross-brand.
Also, for the most part, there’s not a whole lot of difference in quality between datacenter drives (which that Enterprise drive is) and consumer drives. The datacenter drives just have something called TLER, which makes it not hang for 3 minutes trying to read a bad sector. If you’ve had a bad drive that causes intermittent hangs when trying to use it, that’s the lack of TLER.
To address the drive failure thing, my guess is heat, whether it’s lack of airflow or just ambient temperature. But that’s just a wild-assed guess – it’s probably the #1 killer of drives for me though. Every time the fucking A/C in our one datacenter goes down, at least one of the drives don’t come back up…
Final suggestion: use a “small” (e.g. 1TB, 2TB, whatever will fit it) SSD RAID0 for your animation stuff while actually working on it. Blazing speed, zero protection – but you just copy it off to your data drive once it’s done. Amazing for transient I/O-bound workloads. We use a setup like this for staging SQL backups before copying them off to our fileservers.
I’ll shut up now and let everyone get back to talking about fat dragon dicks and oppai hentai babes. ^_^
* We actually mix drive ages instead when practical, which is a lot more reliable in avoiding simultaneous failure. But then again, we’ve got literally thousands of drives to work with here. Not practical for a home user, even a power user. Unless you’re hella rich, which I doubt any of us are.
Gotta admit, while I’m most looking forward to Dragon Soldiers vs. Libby’s Super Boobs, I did expect to see them fuck Demoness’ brains out.. guess they are just committed to getting back to their mistress and her mega titties..
I really wish you’d lighten up the demon text… a medium to dark purple with a black background is REALLY hard for some of us to read. The red was bad enough. Maybe hit them with a light contrasting shadow?
I manage by magnifying to just before the point of fuzziness.
That’s what the Comic Dialogue below the comic is for (also so you know in what order to read the speech)