data loss - Coding Horror

solid state drives

The Hot/Crazy Solid State Drive Scale

As an early advocate of solid state hard drives … * The State of Solid State Hard Drives (October 2009) * Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives (October 2010) … I feel ethically and morally obligated to let you in on a dirty little secret I've discovered in the last two years of

backups

International Backup Awareness Day

You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That's because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss. Here's what happened: 1. The server experienced routine hard drive failure. 2.