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  • Hub 3 - more issues

    From deon@21:2/116 to All on Mon Nov 30 09:59:59 2020
    Hey folks,

    Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

    I'm keeping an eye on it, so if it fails I should see fairly quickly - but if you dont see it back up after a few hours (I'm GMT+11, so sleeping excluded ;) send me an email...

    Sorry for the hastles - just when I was starting to ignore it because it was running soooo well, it started failing. :(

    ...лоеп

    ... First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.
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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to deon on Mon Nov 30 13:12:44 2020
    On 30 Nov 2020 at 09:59a, deon pondered and said...

    Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its
    the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

    I'm keeping an eye on it, so if it fails I should see fairly quickly -
    but if you dont see it back up after a few hours (I'm GMT+11, so
    sleeping excluded ;) send me an email...

    Thank you for keeping an eye on things, bummer about the hardware stuff. I
    hate it when that happens to me too..

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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to deon on Mon Nov 30 10:13:35 2020
    deon wrote (2020-11-30):

    Hey folks,

    Looks like my Hub keeps failing after a few hours - I'm on a hunch its
    the USB storage, so I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD
    drive.

    Sorry for the hastles - just when I was starting to ignore it because it was running soooo well, it started failing. :(

    After over an TB of data writes (just an estimate), I'm still waiting for my SD card to fail. I'm starting to trust the SD storage (until it fails ;)).

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Oli on Wed Dec 2 07:48:10 2020
    Re: Hub 3 - more issues
    By: Oli to deon on Mon Nov 30 2020 10:13 am

    After over an TB of data writes (just an estimate), I'm still waiting for my SD card to fail. I'm starting to trust the SD storage (until it fails ;)).

    Yeah, I've had good luck with SD cards - none have failed yet, and I've had the same one in my Pi 3+ when I first got the 3+ (when it was released).

    Hub 3's failure was a new SAN disk USB stick - and its only a month old... :|

    ...лоеп

    ... The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
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  • From Oli@21:3/102 to deon on Wed Dec 2 10:51:24 2020
    deon wrote (2020-12-02):

    Yeah, I've had good luck with SD cards - none have failed yet,

    good to know. there are so many reports of failing sd cards after a couple of months.

    Hub 3's failure was a new SAN disk USB stick - and its only a month
    old... :|

    I wouldn't use USB sticks. They usually don't support fstrim and wear out faster (at least in my experience). One month is a very short lifespan though, especially for SanDisk. (my SD card is from SanDisk)

    I've replaced it with a USB caddy holding an SSD drive.

    There is hope that it will last much longer. Do you know if your caddy supports fstrim?

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  • From deon@21:2/116 to Oli on Thu Dec 3 22:17:05 2020
    Re: Hub 3 - more issues
    By: Oli to deon on Wed Dec 02 2020 10:51 am

    There is hope that it will last much longer. Do you know if your caddy supports fstrim?

    I dont think so.

    The PI is running ESXi and it doesnt recognise the disk as an SSD. So fstrim doesnt work in guest.... ;(

    ...лоеп

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