KillingTimeItself

not personally, i may have seen a video or two of it happening, but it’s hard to tell whether the head is dragging against the platter, or it’s the bearing, either one of those makes horrendous noise.

If you’re worried about it happening on a drive you own, you should copy that data somewhere else as a backup, ideally sooner rather than later. If you’re curious about the health of the drive you do stuff like SMART tests as well.

Yeah, most drives are solid state now, unless you’re buying hdds for archival purposes, still cheaper and denser in most cases. It’s a low probability failure, until the drive meets EOL, in which case it’s a mechanical wear part, either the motor or the bearing fails. One of them will fail first, probably the bearing.

The bearing failing would likely result in the HDD overheating as a result. Assuming the platter still spins, but that’s the only scenario i can think of where that would happen, unless you dump a very specific amount of continuous current into the read arm coils. That might also cause it, but it’s not likely at all.

An ssd “overheating” is more likely, but it shouldn’t cause too many issues, maybe premature degradation over long term use, and slowing of read/write speeds, or in some cases, an improvement, but other than that it should be business as normal. You would have to hit it with like a heat gun, to get a hardware failure or something like that.

no. but generally spinning things that spin at several thousands of RPM that are spinning on a bearing, that no longer have a bearing usually sort of uh, tend to be VERY noisy.

thank god, i am going to be ok, i was worried it might be contagious (it’s not, he just has brain damage)

doesnt matter if you know how to program, john deere is just going to put some autistic encryption and ID locking on their shit, what needs to happen is for john deere to stop fucking doing this.

Most tractors are walking computers anyway, farmers are genuinely the most multi talented people you will ever meet in your life.

computers are a tool to anybody who uses them?

If you’re using a tool, it goes without saying, you should probably have at the very least, a cursory understanding of it’s function. Lest you injure yourself gravely.

no but a web dev should have some knowledge basis on what the ever living fuck their AIDs code fuelled by nothing but the cheapest source of caffeine and brain damage they have even does.

This is the entire reason why half of the internet is just broken, stupid developers who don’t know how anything works, but know how to code, making dogshit implementations of anything and everything they can get their hands on.

It doesn’t matter that the learning is segmented, you should STILL be learning about computer hardware and it’s architectural choices, it’s literally the reason why programming languages work the way that they do.

the only reason farmers are afloat financially is BECAUSE they can rebuild an engine if needed.

Just look at the john deere right to repair shit. It’s literally a huge problem.

dude is 100% talking about ssds. NVME ones at that, he’s just stupid.

it is, in the select event that your platter bearing fails, in which case it would be very, very obvious.

i mean…

If you’re running a pcie nvme ssd, one of the modern ones, and you’re doing a SHIT ton of reads, like threadripper level amount of reads, i guess “overheating” isn’t unexpected? Shouldn’t do much other than slow down the SSD though?

dumbass probably loaded them into memory, and OOM’d, and thought it was the drive.

almost always makes the whole thing substantially worse. I’ve yet to see a case where it helps.

sure, some tech makes life more difficult, but it’d be weird to require it’s use, so you’re either going to go through a bad government structure (different problem) or choose to use bad products for some reason.

I guess the secret third answer is working somewhere that requires you to use shitty tech, but like, same problem as no 1.

I find the bigger problem to be implementation and support, shit like QR codes and phone based payment taking over things like paper, and card based payment, that’s objectively worse. Though both QR codes and phone based payment are in isolation, explicitly good and beneficial things.