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10-Jun-14 5:12

B@st@rd!

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It's just not my day

OriginalGriff10-Jun-14 4:45

10-Jun-14 4:45

Went to the shops at lunchtime: had to wait a while after an accident (2 * ambo, 4 * police, but otherwise not serious) - looks like someone turned left without looking and collected another car.

Tesco: needed one item, Tesco own product. All tills out of order, just the "fast lane" self scanners working. So everybody is trying to get through six self serve tills with a trolley full of rubbish...

Get home: back to coding. Power goes out. Lose some work, but not too much. Power comes back...and my NAS is red lighted. The power fail has spiked one of the HDDs by the looks of it and it failed. Joy. Now I have to buy a new drive, and an external drive big enough to hold everything on the NAS, copy it all off, replace the duff 'un and copy everything back. Sigh | :sigh:

At least it's RAID and I don't lose any data Laugh | :laugh:

Jörgen Andersson10-Jun-14 4:51

Jörgen Andersson

10-Jun-14 4:51

OriginalGriff wrote:
At least it's RAID and I don't lose any data

DON'T
EVER
WRITE
THAT
!

Now I'm waiting for the next post. Sigh | :sigh:

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

OriginalGriff10-Jun-14 5:09

10-Jun-14 5:09

Gulp.

Hadn't thought of that... Laugh | :laugh:

Rob Philpott10-Jun-14 5:13

Rob Philpott

10-Jun-14 5:13

Re. the NAS, is that necessary? On mine, you just pull the knackered disc out and put a new one and it will rebuild it all without doing anything.

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

OriginalGriff10-Jun-14 6:07

10-Jun-14 6:07

That's a good question - a detailed check in the manual says: nothing about it... Laugh | :laugh:

I just emailed the manufacturer to ask before I spotted your comment.

I wouldn't hurt to get a 4TB USB3 to back it up onto - an extra backup of my backup backups if you like! Wink | ;)

Gary Wheeler10-Jun-14 6:23

Gary Wheeler

10-Jun-14 6:23

It depends on the RAID configuration. I know RAID 5 can reconstruct from the loss of a single drive, as I've done that with our external backup (4 1TB drives in a RAID 5 config, giving about 2.5TB usable space).

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff10-Jun-14 6:55

10-Jun-14 6:55

Mine's also running 4*1TB in RAID 5, for a total of 2.67TB (2945578 MB according to it)
It's working fine to reconstruct on the fly, it's just I don't always trust software so I want confirmation that I can slam a new HDD in there and it'll format it, and resync without destroying the existing data. It's not a new NAS - about 5 years old judging by the software revision date - so I just want the "security blanket" of knowing the data is safe! Laugh | :laugh:

New 1TB HDD and a 4TB USB3.0 drive ordered (just in case, never hurts to have more storage than you need), and the manufacturers are "coming back to me in 24 hours" with an answer.

Gary Wheeler10-Jun-14 7:43

Gary Wheeler

10-Jun-14 7:43

OriginalGriff wrote:
I just want the "security blanket" of knowing the data is safe!

Same here. Our external hard drive is actually a third level of backup, hanging off our backup server. I've even got spare hard drives for the thing. It's about 5 years old, and we've had 3 of the 4 drives fail in the last couple of years.

Software Zen: delete this;

User 842010-Jun-14 9:31

User 8420

10-Jun-14 9:31

OriginalGriff wrote:
I don't always trust software so I want confirmation that I can slam a new HDD in there...

Sure... abuse the hardware by slamming it around then blame the software!

OriginalGriff wrote:
Mine's also running 4*1TB in RAID 5, for a total of 2.67TB

I recently setup a Synology system with 2*4TB in RAID 1 for a total of 4TB. Works like a ~~chimp~~ champ! Big Grin | :-D

So far...

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

Rob Philpott10-Jun-14 22:34

Rob Philpott

10-Jun-14 22:34

It sounds very much to me like this is an excuse for new hardware!

Regards,
Rob Philpott.

OriginalGriff10-Jun-14 22:55

10-Jun-14 22:55

Well, the only new stuff is the 4TB USB, the other just brings my backup system back up to proper operation.

And having a 4TB so I can copy the whole backup system onto one drive does make sense - my largest USB at present is 2TB...

Yeah, OK, you got me. The 4TB is a toy... Blush | :O

Visual Basic needs more credit

Simon Lee Shugar10-Jun-14 5:46

Simon Lee Shugar

10-Jun-14 5:46

Hey, Look on the bright side! Atleast you're not Ginger!

Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk

"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil

Colborne_Greg10-Jun-14 4:42

10-Jun-14 4:42

I think that Visual Basic should be shown off for its beauty and elegance.
Here is a sample of what it can do - that no other language can do:

Private Sub AlbumListPopulate()
    Try
        AlbumsList.ItemsSource = New List(Of Image)

        For Each AlbumName In Pictures.Albums
            Try
                AlbumsList.ItemsSource.Add _
                    (
                        New Image With
                        {
                            .Height = 150,
                            .Width = 150,
                            .Source = RotateStream _
                            (
                                Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Picture,
                                Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Angle
                            )
                        }
                    )
            Catch
            End Try
        Next
    Catch
    End Try
End Sub

Richard MacCutchan10-Jun-14 4:44

Richard MacCutchan

10-Jun-14 4:44

Wrong forum, try http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/WeirdAndWonderful.aspx[^].

PIEBALDconsult10-Jun-14 4:47

PIEBALDconsult

10-Jun-14 4:47

What about that can't be done in C#? Confused | :confused:

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

Colborne_Greg10-Jun-14 4:48

10-Jun-14 4:48

With operator

Richard Deeming10-Jun-14 4:51

Richard Deeming

10-Jun-14 4:51

Just because you don't need the extra keyword doesn't mean that C# can't do it:

new Image
{
    Height = 150,
    Width = 150,
    Source = RotateStream
    (
        Pictures.Album[AlbumName].Picture,
        Pictures.Album[AlbumName].Angle
    )
}

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Colborne_Greg10-Jun-14 5:07

10-Jun-14 5:07

That code would fail as the scopes would be confused

Richard Deeming10-Jun-14 5:55

Richard Deeming

10-Jun-14 5:55

No it wouldn't.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Colborne_Greg10-Jun-14 6:07

10-Jun-14 6:07

VB New image with {.height = height}
C#
New image {height = height}

second one fails

Richard Deeming10-Jun-14 6:14

Richard Deeming

10-Jun-14 6:14

Colborne_Greg wrote:
second one fails

No, it doesn't.
https://dotnetfiddle.net/J0N7Mm[^]

using System;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        int height = 100;
        var image = new Image { height = height };
        Console.WriteLine("The image's height is {0}.", image.height);
    }
}

public class Image
{
    public int height { get; set; }
}

Output: The image's height is 100.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer

Message Closed

10-Jun-14 6:16

10-Jun-14 6:16

Message Closed

Adam Tibi10-Jun-14 23:28

Adam Tibi

10-Jun-14 23:28

Haha

Make it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Colborne_Greg11-Jun-14 5:41