[Web4lib] pcs running more slowly as time passes

[Cary Gordon]

I agree with Jon. Modern consumer level drives are pretty much junk
designed to deliver incredible specs for a bit, then die. Harkens to
cars in the 60's -- planned obsolescence.

Cary

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Jon Gorman <jonathan.gorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> This isn't really on-topic, so I'd suggest posting on syslib-l or
> perhaps even code4lib.   I'll give some responses off the top of my
> head since the questions already been asked....
>
>
>  I could think of several reasons for this happening, although some
> depend more on how this Juzt-Reboot works.  (Is it restoring from a
> secured image somewhere, is it just hammering the drive every time,
> how often is it "restored", etc):
>
> 1) The drives are going.  Have you run a disk check of some sort or a
> utility like spinrite?
>
> 2) Ram is going.  Again, what diagnostics have you run on the
> computers?  Any sort of memtest?
>
> 3) You aren't updating the images on the Juzt-Restore cards enough.
> If there's some other machine on your network that is compromised,
> these machines could be reverting to a clean slate, but then
> immediately being compromised on startup by an virus/worm/trojan that
> your anti-virus isn't recognizing.  Is there any odd network traffic?
>
> 4) Your image on the Juzt-Restore has a compromise on it already.  How
> do you know it is clean?
>
> If I had to guess, I'd probably bet on number one.  Drives don't last
> forever.  In fact I heard some recent statistics that showed a large
> number nowdays only last between a year or two, particularly in high
> use settings.  How frequently do you replace yours?
>
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