Crunch Report - Week of September 21, 2015
**Snoop Dogg Announces Cannabis Platform "Merry Jane"**
**GoPro Is Building Its Own Drone**
**Pebble Time Round Smartwatch Pre-Orders Begin**
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**Oculus Touts New Consumer Rift Headset Features**
I discovered that Roku isnāt as well integrated as I thought: their āuse your phone keyboard instead of the OSKā feature doesnāt work in their YT channel 
Crunch Report - Week of September 28, 2015
**NASA Detects Liquid Water On Mars!**
**Google Unveils Nexus 5X & 6P Android Phones**
**Elon Musk Unveils New Tesla Model X SUV**
**Amazon Bans Apple TV & Chromecast From Site**
**Google Patent May Point to Magic Leap Deal**
So, I came into work yesterday, see the message that some network drives didnāt reconnect, and weāre doing a major upgrade on a server, so I assume itās that one, but when I open Explorer, I see a server that shouldnāt be down (Should of noticed more, but the way I scanned the list, I stop soon enough at the top to get tunnel vision), try to remote desktop, fails, remote into a VM host node to look at the cluster hosting the VMs, and see that all the VMs except for the ones on the one I happen to remote into were off! I start them back up, and look at the logs to see if I can see a reason why (is seems the connection to the SANS went down for all but one server, and MS Failover didnāt think to move the VMs to the one server that still had access to the drive).
Anyway, I noticed one of the servers that was down was the one running the time card software I wrote, meaning everyone who tried to clock in that morning couldnāt. When I was trying to see if it was up (an email came in asking about it while I started the servers back up) I noticed a machine that did survive the freak shut down had rebooted for some reason. It was the server with the database for our ticket system (I later learned it blue screened from a co-worker who went to look because someone else couldnāt open the ticket tracker, I assume after I restarted the other machines). Before the machine had a chance to fully reboot, I tried to open itā¦ Yep, derp moment thereā¦
@miquelfire Oh you had a lovely start to your day. Thatās like the time last November when I sat down with my lunch salad and did a disk space check in a linux session which gave me a cryptic read error. After a couple of minutes checking other filesystems I called into our data center hot line to report an outage. They said, file a ticket so I tried to login to the ticketing system and got another cryptic error this time from windows. I called the data center hotline again and told them " You have a worse problem than you thought."
Two drives in one of our RAID arrays died within two minutes of each other, something that isnāt statistically possible. Took hours for us to fail over to the DR datacenter and it was a week before we got everything back in place.
Hopefully your problems are all curable by reboots and arenāt a symptom of some deeper problem with your SAN.
Mark Gosdin
Damn yāall, rough week! Statistics are the worst poke in the side, M.
Crunch Report - Week of October 5, 2015
**Jack Dorsey: Finally, Twitter's Permanent CEO**
**Microsoft's New Lumia 950, Surface Book, Surface Pro 4**
**Pandora Is Acquiring Ticketfly**
**Facebook Adds "Empathy" Reactions**
**LogMeIn Buys Password Manager LastPass**
Crunch Report - Week of October 12, 2015
**Dell Buys EMC for $67B, Largest Tech Acquisition Ever**
**Twitter Lays off 8% of Workforce**
**Square Files For IPO, Cites Dorsey As Risk Factor**
**Dropbox Launches Paper, Goes After Google Docs Users**
**Steve Ballmer Owns 4% of Twitter!**
So, Windows Disk cleanup did something VERY wrong last night. To the point that it viewed EVERYTHING on my C: drive is stuff it can clean upā¦ Good thing I do image backups. Just used the backup from the night before I attempted to use that tool. Now to do the clean up again (not using that tool for now)
BTW (didnāt get around to doing my clean up stuff yet), when I ran disk cleanup, it said it found 26TB of temporary files on my C: driveā¦ Thatās 3x the total space I have on my computer including the two backup drives (which I should remove one of them now since I canāt trust the damn thing to work on me since the SMART system diedā¦ and thatās the reason I have two backup drives right now)
BTW, hereās the hard drives in my computer
- Internal drives:
- My C: drive is a 1TB drive with the typical multi partition setup Windows 7 does.
- Next is my Z: drive which is another 1TB drive. Itās where my documents live (and all the other directories I can move with the GUI)
- M: drive with a T: partition for the page file, 1TB total. I was using Fraps when I created this. All the recordings I do goes on this drive.
- External drives:
- E: drive is the first backup drive plugged in, 3TB, should be removed as SMART appeared to have died on it.
- I: drive is the replacement backup drive, 4TB.
@miquelfire how old is this install of Win 7? It may be that you, if you have the install disk, should do a bare metal re-install on the 1TB C: disk or possibly replace that disk with a SSD and reinstall. Any Windows install that sees much use needs a rework every three or so years, at least that is my experience.
Mark Gosdin
I been too lazy to do that. Actually, when I get around to it, I was going to so the Windows 10 upgrade, then do a bare metal reinstall of that anyway.
Nyoooooooooo. Easily Win7>Win10>8.1>8, so why go backwards? 
Definitely this, the greatness of a SSD boot drive cannot be understated, though sadly 1 TB SSDs still cost as much as a high-end āmidrangeā GPU.
Iām ruminating about using a MS TechNet (whatever its called now) freebie of 8.1 to jump to 10, putting it on its own SSD so itāll be āair gappedā from my Win7. I just canāt bring myself to trade in my Win7 for Win10.
On a side note, the new parent companyās data center that Iām moving our ERP ( approx 700 users ) into has a Petabyte+ SSD storage system. No spinning disks in their SAN storage at all. Iām looking forward to seeing this.
This same company will by all Windows 10 by July, that means they will be replacing my company laptop since they donāt use the same encryption as our old parent company did. Most every one else will get an upgrade. I donāt know what they intend to do about my co-workerās laptop, the ERP ( approx 500 users ) he administersā management tools only run on XP and there is no upgrade.
Mark Gosdin
Itās mainly to have the free upgrade so when the time comes that Win 7 becomes the new XP in terms of support. Iāll be ready and donāt have to pay to upgrade. Also, seeing how annoying it is to do an upgrade, I would prefer to get it out of the way.