Sunday, January 20
Daily News Stuff 20 January 2019
Tech News
- Kingston is aiming to bring NVMe SSD prices below SATA. (AnandTech)
I don't know of any specific reason why this would be impossible. The flash chips are the same and there's little difference in controllers.
They're aiming for 1500MB/s writes and 2000MB/s read, which is middle-of-the-pack for NVMe but three to four times faster than SATA.
Launch date and pricing are yet to be set.
- Netflix is full of shit. (Gamasutra)
Netflix VP: We are losing subscribers. Quick, what do we blame to placate investors?
Exec 1: The trade war?
Exec 2: Fortnite?
Exec 3: All our original content sucks, competition is stronger than ever, and we just increased our pricing?
[Exec 3 exits via window.]
- Two is one and one is none.
Also, if it's Synology, two may be none, because those things seem to simply drop dead without warning.
- Apple users are very, very slowly coming to the realisation that a hermetically sealed ecosystem might not be great for consumers. (Apple Insider)
Very, very, very slowly.
- According to Amazon 50,000 retailers on their platform had more than $500,000 in sales in 2018. (TechSpot)
200,000 had sales over $100,000.
That's a lot of small businesses making good money. I don't entirely like Amazon, but they don't suck the life out of everything they touch the way Facebook and Google do.
- We had a recent mention of a bug in scp where a hostile server could attack your client. Usually this sort of problem runs in the other direction.
Well, there's a similar bug in MySQL, though you're even less likely to actually run into it. scp is used to connect to remote hosts all the time; it is far less common to connect to a MySQL server outside your control, for dozens of excellent reasons.
So the answer is YES. Mysql docs even explicitly state it 😬Thanks to Adminer's author @jakubvrana for pointing that out: https://t.co/qEFTYvw6uApic.twitter.com/cDO57JEYve
— Willem de Groot (@gwillem) January 18, 2019
Social Media News
- Facebook may be facing record fines by the FTC for violating a 2011 consent decree. (Ars Technica)
Give Facebook credit: They've worked very hard to earn this.
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I've had to recover data from a failed ReadyNAS using the same Linux MD magic he used. Extra fun when the NAS was Sparc-based and the Linux box was x86.
Words missing from the Synology horror story: "surge protector", "ups". It's possible that my whole-house surge protector is just a placebo, but between that and the big honking UPS in my wiring closet, I've never lost any gear in an outage. I also replicate all my data to a second RAID volume; located in the same house, but better than nothing. I keep meaning to put another NAS on my desk at work and tunnel to it...
On that note, what specifically have you heard about poor Synology reliability? After migrating everything off of a big pile of ancient FireWire, USB, and NAS devices, I'd hate to have to go through it all again any time soon.
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Words missing from the Synology horror story: "surge protector", "ups". It's possible that my whole-house surge protector is just a placebo, but between that and the big honking UPS in my wiring closet, I've never lost any gear in an outage. I also replicate all my data to a second RAID volume; located in the same house, but better than nothing. I keep meaning to put another NAS on my desk at work and tunnel to it...
On that note, what specifically have you heard about poor Synology reliability? After migrating everything off of a big pile of ancient FireWire, USB, and NAS devices, I'd hate to have to go through it all again any time soon.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, January 20 2019 05:39 PM (tgyIO)
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I haven't seen statistics, so I may be off-base. They just seem to pop up a lot in the YouTube tech videos I follow, and not in a good way.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 20 2019 06:11 PM (PiXy!)
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I've used Synology boxes for years and not had an issue. That said, I'm not exactly stressing any of the boxes I've had. I know they were heavily impacted by the Intel Atom hardware bug a while back, but that ranged far beyond Synology.
Unfortunately backup solutions for SOHO once you start to get in the double digit TB range are either very expensive or impractical. Paying hundreds of dollars for hard drives every time you want to start a new backup adds up, and forget buying a tape drive (even though tapes are actually reasonable). I looked into Blackblaze until I realized that it was going to tie up my internet connection upload for 6 months to upload my files. There is definitely a gap here that is begging to be filled with so many going the NAS/SOHO route for their files.
Unfortunately backup solutions for SOHO once you start to get in the double digit TB range are either very expensive or impractical. Paying hundreds of dollars for hard drives every time you want to start a new backup adds up, and forget buying a tape drive (even though tapes are actually reasonable). I looked into Blackblaze until I realized that it was going to tie up my internet connection upload for 6 months to upload my files. There is definitely a gap here that is begging to be filled with so many going the NAS/SOHO route for their files.
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