Planned downtime: Harddrive replacement (yet again!)

[Durrick]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you all are doing with this great game.
Also are you all still using SSD?

[tatarin_prm]

What a hard drives installed on the server?
Why they are dying every six months

[borka]

I'll contact Hetzner shortly and update you on when it's going to happen. I'll also try to nag them about the cause of these frequent failures.

Update: Hetzner will replace the drive at 2012-08-08, 21:00 UTC, -snip-
It might take a bit before it comes back, because they said they'll try to look into the frequent failures and debug it a bit.

Sata II (usual Brands) - no SSD (yet)

[tatarin_prm]

SSD - slowly for a server and not reliable

[Doness]

SSD - slowly for a server and not reliable

I don't know quite where you get this from.
SSD sport a nice boost in read speed (albeit a with a relatively slow write speed - which is often still significantly higher than a HDD even when it doesn't have to switch tracks),
with a HUGE boost in power-efficiency (edit: slight exaggeration, discussable).

The one thing I shall give you is this: when SSD drives fail, they tend to this without warning and unrecoverably. Shouldn't be a problem if you're running a good RAID configuration, and definitely not when you don't have physical access to the drives so you can't just junk around with it.

[tatarin_prm]

in the first reading of a limited number of cycles recording
in the second linear speed - high in only one thread!

I just do resuscitation and maintenance of hard drives
sory - google translate/

[Doness]

in the first reading of a limited number of cycles recording
in the second linear speed - high in only one thread!

I just do resuscitation and maintenance of hard drives
sory - google translate/

this sounds like a (bad) haiku

in the first reading of a limited number of cycles recording

that is true, ssd have a limited amount of writes. AFAIAW, this is not so bad as to cause troubles for most applications

in the second linear speed - high in only one thread!

not true: ssd read latency is completely independent of memory location - their forte

[borka]

I think we should not discuss this in an announcement thread please!

[BoOty]

It is possible, though not yet certain, that minimap data will be lost.

God, thanks!

[Shakey]

I must obviously be bad with timezones, UTC was 5 hours ahead of EST. So server is estimated to come back on around what time EST?