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The Server Fell Over (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races.

I love the Jargon File

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