[conspire] 1:2.1.29-1+deb10u5? Re: upgrade-in-place to Mailman 2.1.30 and want to test Mailman3?

[Tony Godshall]

Samsung SSD and mSD can be purchased from Samsung.com, and given the number
of fraudulent drives being reported, that's what I do.

Best Regards.
A.P.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 12:22 Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Here's an idea:  I already had in mind to buy replacements for the pair
> of Vantec external cases for 2.5" SSDs, and for the USB cables providing
> power to those enclosures (and possibly also for the eSATA data cables,
> though we don't have any suspicions about those cables' reliability), so
> how about I start with acquiring current, larger 2.5" SSDs?
>
> /me looks at newegg.com, is appalled at how junked-up the site now is.
> I'd heard they had new management.  Ugh, it shows.
>
> Current mass storage is a mirrored pair of Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
> 256GB, best of breed for their day, notably using MLC NAND flash rather
> than cheap-ass, slow TLC (triple-level cell) NAND, the greater quality
> attested by the 5-year (now expired) warranty rather than the commodity
> sludge's shorter warranty.  Cost was about $1/GB when new.
>
> Looks like, in the 2.5" "traditional" (heh!) form factor, as opposed to
> racy M.2 stuff that is not a go for the CompuLab box, the Samsung SSD
> 860 Pro Series, in several capacities, is a recent successor to the 840
> PRO Seriea.
>
> In 1TB sizes, Newegg offers new for $520, used for $200.
>
> https://www.newegg.com/samsung-1tb-860-pro-series/p/N82E16820147777?Item=9SIAADFJVP7159
> Except this is not being sold by Newegg but rather _through_ Newegg by
> some other clowns named "The Best Deals for You Store".
>
> I am -not- getting warm-fuzzies about 2024's iteration of Newegg.  Where
> _do_ people shop for reasonable deals from non-flaky firms, in 2024?
> Central Computer in Santa Clara, maybe?
>
>
> Anyhow, that troubling detail aside, suppose I were to buy a pair of 1TB
> SSDs and 2.5"-compatible external cases plus power ("USB") cables for
> them.  Then, we could put guido into degraded-RAID1 mode with just one
> of the 256GB drives, booting from that, and adding one of the 1TB drives
> to the system, then set up a new guido on the 1TB drive (with LVM and
> other changes deemed desirable), migrate everything to it, set the 1TB
> drive to be bootable, power down, remove the 256GB drive, add the second
> 1TB drive, power back up, remirror the RAID1 array.
>
> I'm used to doing that sort of thing with not only all services offline
> but also and in single-user maintenance mode; don't know how you feel
> about that.  System being down for an afternoon is perfectly fine.
>
> At that point, we'd have a lot more space to play with, and LVM if you
> really think it's justified.  Personally, I am not convinced about the
> need for that additional abstraction layer, especially if one has enough
> spare space, and also if necessary is willing to have downtime while
> moving around data and remaking filesystems (which I am willing to
> have).
>
> What do you think?
>
>
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