Just had a funny support ticket yesterday.
Normal users get a mailbox size of 500 MiB. For normal usage that's enough. You're not supposed to abuse the mail system as "archiving" solution - we have a separate product for that.
But thanks to the current pandemic it can happen that some users might get a lot more mail traffic than others and might thus run out of space pretty fast (e.g. because of attachments and what not). So if that happens a user can open a ticket and request more space, e.g. 1 GiB or 2 GiB if need be which we will happily provide.
And then yesterday we get this ticket from a user who thinks she's particularly entitled to having a super duper large mailbox. :-)
"Please increase my mailbox size to 1 Exabyte!"
So we call her back, thinking that maybe that's just a typo and she actually meant 1 Gigabyte ...
"NO!! I really mean 1 Exabyte!!" she insists :))
"I need all the mailbox space you can give me!! I am sooo tired of constantly running out of space ..."
"Constantly" ??? Ticket history shows that she's only had her mailbox size increased once so far: from 500 MiB to 800 MiB. And that was like 1 year ago. Storage analysis shows she's got like 750 MiB in her mailbox now. So given the growth rate of her mailbox over the past year 1 GiB should do just fine for her. If she runs out of that space too she can request 2 GiB in about a year or so ...
(BTW, fellow sysadmins: BS like this is exactly why you don't do zip and anything at all unless there's a ticket ID for it!!! Document everything and make sure it's in the ticket !!)
"NOOOO!!! I want 1 Exabyte ...!!"
Of course I refuse. There's no way in this Universe I could give her that much space!! :)
"I am going to escalate to your manager!!!!!" she screams.
I can hear my manager's phone ringing. He picks up and the only thing I can hear is "LOL WUUUUUT!?? :) "
That phone call didn't even last 30 seconds. My manager walks to my desk laughing ear to ear and tears in his eyes: "Yeah. Right. Just give her 1 GiB and then close the ticket. And don't forget to print it out and put a frame on it. That ticket needs to be in our hall of fame ..."
Some users... Tssskk tsssk tssk. 1 Exabyte of mailbox storage for Outlook. Riiiiiight. :)
These are basically vintage items. The Exabyte tape drive definitely works, I've used it recently. The CD-ROM unit I haven't used, but it functions as part of the SCSI chain (I'm using an LVD connector on my PC to connect to the regular SCSI MD50 connector on the CD-ROM unit, and then that connects to the DB50 on the tape unit. These cables will be included (except for the LVD SCSI cable for my PC).
Cables and terminators included (unless you don't need them). Free but you pay for postage from Ireland.
When I tried to boot my PC today, I got a warning saying one of my SSDs were about to fail. I did some googling and saw some mentions of CrystalDiskInfo, so I figured it was worth checking out to see if it could tell me what was going on with my drive.
This is what I get in CrystalDiskInfo. I know next to nothing about hard drives and SSDs, but that number for "Total NAND Writes" obviously sticks out to me. I'm pretty sure it being 1706024335 GB isn't normal for a 240 GB drive, even if it is 6 years old at this point... My older 120GB SSD, which was my main drive for a couple of years, is at about 16000 GB for both Total Host Writes and Total NAND Writes, so obviously something weird is going on here.
Is this just a bug of some kind, where my drive is reporting that it's been used far more than it actually has, or has something messed up my drive so that it's at the point of failing me?
Apparently Exabytes are huge amount of data, and when I looked up examples i got stuff like “its comparable to ###### of movie discs or whatever, so is exabytes simply a unit that isn’t in any devices? I’ve only seen it being compared to how much blank it or how much data is used by the internet a year
Also I'm just curious if anyone knows how to and the best way to store that much information.
My code is 1K8J. I do have a Peco and Rio Grande Standard If anyone wants them
I have a 112m Exabyte Data8 tape hanging around and I'm idly curious about the data that is on it. Not enough to try to buy an old Exabyte tape unit, though. Do you have an old Exabyte tape unit that might read it? The tape was almost certainly written in 1994 and its format is almost certainly either `tar` or SunOS 4 `dump`.
"about one 10th of the words people have ever spoken" (sauce)
Seriously
