PC Community Thread

[Legend]

Windows sucks so much. I thought I had killed auto updates on my laptop, but nope. Overnight it restarted itself and threw away some work.

[nnodley]

Windows sucks so much. I thought I had killed auto updates on my laptop, but nope. Overnight it restarted itself and threw away some work.

I'm pretty sure I just had the same last night. I made some updates to my contract work i was on and I guess I hadn't fully hit save and put my PC to sleep. Project was shut and lost a few little things I thought I saved. Frickin windows.

[nnodley]

luckily it was small amounts of work

[Legend]

I changed my active hours to be 12 AM to 12 AM. Let's see if that stops it. The other changes I made to disable it were seemingly reverted or ignored.

Yeah the lost work isn't too much real work, but the primary issue is that I lose all my incognito tabs. I had ~50 open for various things I was in the middle of researching. Maybe I just need to switch that habit and keep those tabs open another way that doesn't clutter my day to day tabs.

[the-pi-guy]

I've screwed up my RAID like twice now. The drive that I added a while ago wasnt showing as part of the RAID. Even though it was working properly. I readded it back in, and it instantly knew it was supposed to be part of the RAID. 

Then I messed up again, when I added the newest drive. It spent like 5 days building. I restarted and it wasn't showing the expanded space, and it wasn't showing that the RAID was expanded. 

Readded it in, and it starts building. And I came back like 7 hours later, it's already 40% done. 

It's going a lot faster, but it's causing issues with Plex and other things. The other drives are running at like 99% during the rebuild process. Struggling to play videos at the moment. 

I think I have it resolved by setting a limit by how fast it can rebuild. 

[Legend]

Does that cause problems with all your data?

[the-pi-guy]

Does that cause problems with all your data?

Data is all fine. 

I can have problems with two drives and not have any issues. 

[Legend]

Funny how obvious all of this is to most gamers, yet amazon didn't understand it.


I think the biggest one he missed though is that of the "game shelf." People collect games and it feels much better when that collection feels whole. Any of these new stores that compete with steam either need to come in like a freight truck and quickly build enough momentum to take over, or they need to integrate with steam in some way so the game shelf stays whole.

[the-pi-guy]

I've screwed up my RAID like twice now. The drive that I added a while ago wasnt showing as part of the RAID. Even though it was working properly. I readded it back in, and it instantly knew it was supposed to be part of the RAID.

Then I messed up again, when I added the newest drive. It spent like 5 days building. I restarted and it wasn't showing the expanded space, and it wasn't showing that the RAID was expanded.

Readded it in, and it starts building. And I came back like 7 hours later, it's already 40% done.

It's going a lot faster, but it's causing issues with Plex and other things. The other drives are running at like 99% during the rebuild process. Struggling to play videos at the moment.

I think I have it resolved by setting a limit by how fast it can rebuild.

I have been having a lot of issues with this drive.

And I think it's because I didn't set up the other 5 properly. Best practice is to create a partition on the drives and then add it to the RAID. Which I did for the last one. So I think the different configurations have been causing me issues. 

I will need like 60TB of space to fix what I did though. 

[Legend]

will need like 60TB of space to fix what I did though. 

[the-pi-guy]

Well I do have 3x18TB drives of usable space.

[the-pi-guy]

It'll probably be a next year thing to have a proper HDD backup. 

RAID is now set up for 4x18TB of space. 

[the-pi-guy]

One of my disc drives had been having issues for quite a while. It's been able to recognize DVDs just fine, but it wouldn't recognize if there's a blu-ray in it. Wasn't working for a few months.

Decided to try it out again today, and it worked.  

Just in time for me to burn it out again. 

[Legend]

You've got all your movies so it makes sense.

I don't know the last time I used a PC disc. Maybe playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 10 years ago?



Do you have an internal drive or is it usb?

[the-pi-guy]

You've got all your movies so it makes sense.

I don't know the last time I used a PC disc. Maybe playing Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 10 years ago?



Do you have an internal drive or is it usb?

Internal drive, cost me $55. (A lot of people still get $400 4k players.)

I haven't seen any good looking USB drives that was as cheap, but I'm sure there's something out there.