• zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    my hard drive overheated

    So, this means they either have a local copy on disk of whatever database they’re querying, or they’re dumping a remote db to disk at some point before/during/after their query, right?

    Either way, I have just one question - why?

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      10 hours ago

      Even if it was local, a raspberry pi can handle a query that size.

      Edit - honestly, it reeks of a knowledge level that calls the entire PC a “hard drive”.

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      12 hours ago

      My one question would be “How?”

      What the hell are you doing that your hard drives are overheating? How do you even know it’s overheating as I’m like 90% certain hard drives (except NVMe if we’re being liberal with the meaning of hard drive) don’t even have temperature sensors?

      The only conclusion I can come to is that everything he’s saying is just bullshit.

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        12 hours ago

        They have temp sensors. But have never heard of a overheating drive.

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          Imo if they can’t max out their harddrive for at least 24 hours without it breaking, their computer was already broken. They just didn’t know it yet.

          Any reasonable SSD would just throttle if it was getting too hot, and I’ve never heard of a HDD overheating on its own, only if there’s some external heat sources, like running it in a 60°C room

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            10 hours ago

            Can we think of any device someone might have that would struggle with 60k? Certainly an ESP32 chip could handle it fine, so most IoT devices would work…

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              10 hours ago

              Right? There’s no part of that xeet that makes any real sense coming from a “data engineer.”

              Terrifying, really.