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New Years Resolution: Stop shouting at my disk arrays

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Apparently, disk arrays are sensitive sorts that respond poorly when yelled at:

Makes me wonder how much engineering that I never thought about goes into designing disk shelves to keep drives insulated from vibrations. The Fishworks analytics interface is dazzling – wish I had that yesterday when I was looking at a possible Exchange I/O performance issue with perfmon…

Written by Andy

January 1st, 2009 at 9:10 am

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  1. I’ll be sure to keep my temper around hardware from now on. I wonder what happens if you talk dirty to it …. LOL

    rbrambley

    1 Jan 09 at 10:34 am

  2. Speaking of talking dirty, wasn’t the original pronunciation of SCSI supposed to be “sexy” rather than “scuzzy?” :-)

    Bob Plankers

    1 Jan 09 at 1:58 pm

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