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Comment Re: Dissonance (nonsense) (Score 0) 70

Amazon is not in the competitive wage category for any position. If you get lucky and ride the stock grants up it can work out.

They run thin margins on everything and donâ(TM)t overspend on everything else. At least in the long run, new products can be inefficient, but that gets driven down if itâ(TM)s successful.

The primary allure of working there is the name and experience. Once you have both you can command a higher price in the market.

Comment Whatever (Score 0) 113

Canâ(TM)t stay employed peddling garbage and now you hope you can get paid for it through a different medium.

Turns out when you try to pretend opinion is news then people stop paying for it. Still not giving you any money!

Comment Re:How is this on Slashdot? (Score 0) 359

If you are using a hardware raid controller then you can afford a spare.

If you data is important to you then that would probably be wise.

One of the early controversies I had to deal with was an architect that had a strong bias against software raid and said the company should move to this at some juncture. Except there are some advantages to a raid controller like detection and faulting of bad media. We would have needed to invest writing failure detection software as well as features to manage this. In the end, there can still be human intervention involved to determine why drives split and which is the authoritative mirror. I know, I had a lot of software raid before and it wasn't fun.

Our case, I argued eventually we should drive the secondary drive and move to a different model for local data store and how we guarantee nodes. ie, fast fail and replacement.

All of these things really dependent on your environment, the cost of productivity and ultimately how much you want to spend to be available. Personally, I would never use the stuff again, but some people really like it. I'm not sure they have used it at scale.

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