And we’re back again…

Written By: - Date published: 4:21 am, October 28th, 2024 - 9 comments
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The Standard’s server is now in a new case that is streamlined for its new location. Same motherboard, memory and CPU that I put in last year. But just getting it out of the old server case and shedding the massive hard drive RAID array that we archive our work and personal stuff on. It won’t need old personal projects and backups of raw footage where the server is going. The site backups are almost all cloud these days. Gave me a chance to fix up a previous hardware mistake and change a very old boot drive.

The NVME M2 that supplies the database and code is now in a PCIE4 slot instead of a PCIE3 (I got it the order wrong the last year when I last had the box open). That means we should get most of the speed from the Samsung 990 Pro that I put in for The Standard fast data last year. Hard to tell how much difference that makes in the speed.

But the response of old archive months archive feels subjectively a lot faster. However it is nearly 4am and not too many have gotten back on to the site part from the usual robots. But the response in the media library for searches seems faster as well. Of course at 4am, it may that it just seems faster because I am slower – that is relativity for you.

The old Samsung 940 500GB SDD that has provides the default boot drive has now been duplicated to a more recent Samsung 870 one terabyte.

That old 940 did sterling service. I captured its SMART stats. It has been alive for twelve and half years! I vaguely remember buying it early in 2012. It was the largest SSD I had ever brought at that point.

In all that time it has been Ok, but has been increasing in some of the diagnostic counts on SMART over the last couple of months, so it was time to retire it. While the backup boot drive is actually newer, I never got around to making it the primary.

The only thing that slowed the upgrades down and made six hours rather than three was that my very old hard drive and SSD disk duplicator appears to have failed. I brought that in about 2014 or 2015.

Of course, I found out only after it got almost almost all the way through the copy before flashing an error. So I spent a lot of time testing the old boot drive on a USB3 cable, then copying it off to the RAID archive, and then copying on to the new drive. Time enough to nearly finish reading a second book.

We’re currently at nearly 30 thousand published posts an 1.9 million published comments.

Cheers
lprent

9 comments on “And we’re back again… ”

  1. Patricia Bremner 1
    28 October 2024 at 4:42 am

    Thank you for your mahi Iprent. Wow, those are impressive numbers.

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  2. Tiger Mountain 2
    28 October 2024 at 7:16 am

    Yes, thank you lprent for your hard work, which is appreciated by many.

    The ebb and flow of commenters and posters is always interesting. Some run hot and cold and then disappear (or learn about the site guidelines) and others keep on trucking for years. Some of the most consistent commenters are ones I know in real life and have even temperaments.

    Long may The Standard go on, including stalwart Micky Sav.

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  3. dv 3
    28 October 2024 at 7:19 am

    Indeed TM and PB

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  4. Mike the Lefty 4
    28 October 2024 at 8:44 am

    I hope everyone is having a pleasant Labour weekend, the holiday that ostensibly celebrates the eight-hour working day as the best balance between work and leisure.

    This was not gained by sitting back and wishing and hoping. It was gained by the sweat, determination and grit of our parents, grand parents, uncles and aunts who wanted something better for us than all work and no play.

    There are some in this present government who would want to take this (paid) holiday away from us because they think we don't deserve it.

    We must not let them.

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    • Tiger Mountain 4.1
      28 October 2024 at 10:30 am

      There is a generation or more that have little understanding of unions and peoples historic achievements after the devastation of union membership density via the 1991 ECA.

      I had a chat with a young friend yesterday who works weekends at the local Four Square in Mangonui. He told me he was not happy due to missing a longer weekend, his school had a teacher only day scheduled for today rather than Tuesday–freaking Labour Day!–What? I said, and we had a mini seminar for five minutes as I told him about weekends etc. he could not believe that NZ shops in earlier times were not generally open on Sat and Sun or that overtime rates applied and so on. Told him about a few strikes etc I was involved in and how unions in South Auckland in my time delivered millions in extra wages to families and communities via second tier bargaining and supporting other sites financially, that the corporates of the time, car industry, metal work, logistics etc. would have just trousered if not for strong worker organisation.

      He thanked me for my efforts! a sincere young guy and others in line smiled too despite me slowing down their shopping experience.

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      • Mike the Lefty 4.1.1
        28 October 2024 at 10:44 am

        Yes, there are a few generations that have little idea that paid holidays, annual leave, sick pay, bereavement leave, etc. once did not exist and only now exist because our forefathers and mothers demanded these rights and took direct actions to achieve them, often at considerable personal cost.

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        • Descendant Of Smith 4.1.1.1
          28 October 2024 at 2:12 pm

          Yeah was talking to some young ones the other day about going on strike for better conditions and pay. They had no idea that such a thing could happen.

          Now if only we had a workers party who when in power would give is that right back.

          All unions currently should refuse to negotiate contracts for longer than 12 months – then at least they could strike once a year as each contract term expired.

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  5. Macro 5
    28 October 2024 at 9:36 am

    Ditto all previous comments. And yes the site from first impressions is running way quicker than before. You have earned a good labour day lie in Lprent. 🏆👍😄

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  6. Mountain Tui 6
    28 October 2024 at 12:38 pm

    Thank you lprent and everyone here – I am happy to have found this site in July and thanks for keeping it up and running.

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