Me having pneumonia is what got me started vaping.
The doctor said, after a CAT scan, that he expected with my long history of smoking that he was going find to something related to that. He said you have pneumonia and your lungs look really good, you should consider quitting smoking and I did.
The doctor said, after a CAT scan, that he expected with my long history of smoking that he was going find to something related to that. He said you have pneumonia and your lungs look really good, you should consider quitting smoking and I did.
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It was the same for me, I had pneumonia bad, was in the hospital for a week on intravenous antibiotics. It took me months to breath normal again, knock the hell out of me. The doc told me if I didn't find a way to quit smoking it was going to kill me, that bluntly, it's what made me try vaping.
ETA: Maybe I should have said I had wet lung.....
A buddy of mine use to say;
More then a mouthful is a waste.
One day I told him;
You can drop that line, I'll never say anything about who you married.
More then a mouthful is a waste.
One day I told him;
You can drop that line, I'll never say anything about who you married.
Well, another one of those days. My surveillance software crashed at about 12:30 today. It checks for updates and, if there is one, installs it and restarts itself at 12:30 every day. It did update, but didn't restart. As soon as I noticed it I restarted the surveillance software and all was fine.
Fast forward to after dinner. I went in and wanted to look at a video from two days ago from a specific camera. The program crashed again just getting the timeline up. This time I rebooted the machine. It started loading windows, then went into the drive light flashing about 10 times a minute and stayed like that. I let it sit like that for almost a half hour. Keep in mind this is an i7-6700K based machine so boot time is under a minute normally. Every time that's happened before it's been from a failed SSD drive. So, I powered the machine down and restarted again. This time I got the Winderz repair screen, so I said go ahead and bring it up. It's been sitting, apparently trying to load repair tools, for almost an hour now.
I have a sinking feeling another SSD drive has bit the dust. Unfortunately, this time, it's the boot drive. I think I'll go back to platter based drives. All of the Samsung EVO drives I've bought have failed and none is over two years old and don't get a lot of read/write activity.
To add insult to injury I just started a test install of Acronis backup on this craptop but haven't backed up that machine yet. My plan is to rebuild Mrs. Awsum's desktop, which she never uses, and use that as a backup server for all the machines. I booted that today and found out how far technology has come in ten years and how much Winderz has changed since XP, and it was pretty much "state of the art" when I built it.
Fast forward to after dinner. I went in and wanted to look at a video from two days ago from a specific camera. The program crashed again just getting the timeline up. This time I rebooted the machine. It started loading windows, then went into the drive light flashing about 10 times a minute and stayed like that. I let it sit like that for almost a half hour. Keep in mind this is an i7-6700K based machine so boot time is under a minute normally. Every time that's happened before it's been from a failed SSD drive. So, I powered the machine down and restarted again. This time I got the Winderz repair screen, so I said go ahead and bring it up. It's been sitting, apparently trying to load repair tools, for almost an hour now.
I have a sinking feeling another SSD drive has bit the dust. Unfortunately, this time, it's the boot drive. I think I'll go back to platter based drives. All of the Samsung EVO drives I've bought have failed and none is over two years old and don't get a lot of read/write activity.
To add insult to injury I just started a test install of Acronis backup on this craptop but haven't backed up that machine yet. My plan is to rebuild Mrs. Awsum's desktop, which she never uses, and use that as a backup server for all the machines. I booted that today and found out how far technology has come in ten years and how much Winderz has changed since XP, and it was pretty much "state of the art" when I built it.
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Man that sucks. I need to get off my .... and get my image backups set up before I face the same thing.
Have all your SSD's gone bad on that one computer? If so I'd check the output voltage on that power supply under load. If it checked good I'd swap out the MB. Something is going on with that box, I have never had an SSD go south.
That works for me Tibs. 
I was going to mention about Eciggity has both Geek Vape Flask ($18.99) and Geek Vape Flask v2 ($9.99). Use code MEM15 for 15% off (good until the 28th I believe). If anybody is still interested, before I lost power for over 6 hours.
I used to use UPS power backups. But the batteries always needed replacing about every 3 years. And every 3 years I might only lose power once for like just a few seconds. Being out for 6 hours only happens maybe once per 10 years. So it doesn't seem worthwhile to even have a UPS anymore. Plus I don't use desktops anymore, but laptops in docking stations most of the time which last longer than UPS anyway. Might be handy to have an UPS on the modem/router though.
I was going to mention about Eciggity has both Geek Vape Flask ($18.99) and Geek Vape Flask v2 ($9.99). Use code MEM15 for 15% off (good until the 28th I believe). If anybody is still interested, before I lost power for over 6 hours.
I used to use UPS power backups. But the batteries always needed replacing about every 3 years. And every 3 years I might only lose power once for like just a few seconds. Being out for 6 hours only happens maybe once per 10 years. So it doesn't seem worthwhile to even have a UPS anymore. Plus I don't use desktops anymore, but laptops in docking stations most of the time which last longer than UPS anyway. Might be handy to have an UPS on the modem/router though.
I let the machine run Winderz repair and finally got it back up at about 10 last night. The repair actually said it failed but the machine rebooted normally when it restarted. Knock on wood, it'
ran all night and is running fine this morning.
In all fairness to the SSD drives, the first two that failed were EVO 840. I looked online and it seems there was a problem in the original BIOS for that model which, over time, made it unable to read the data. I may try updating the firmware, on the one I didn't throw out, to see if I can recover the lost data. The current boot drive is an EVO 850 which doesn't seem to have that particular problem. The power supply is an EVGA Gold 850 so I'm fairly confident the voltages are in spec but will have a look-see just to make sure.
The other thing is that the machine runs 24/7/365 and has three, high horsepower, video cards in it for folding@home. They generate a lot of heat and that may be giving the SSD drives a problem. I've got to figure out a way to get more air through that machine. In the mean time I have a new, conventional, 500GB drive on the way and will be cloning the SSD drive over to it in the VERY near future.
For my purposes, video surveillance and folding@home, a craptop just doesn't have the horsepower to handle the load those two apps produce. The CPU routinely sits at ~50% utilization, all the time, and as I add more cameras that load increases by about 3-4% per camera. At the rate I'm adding cameras I may just move video surveillance onto another, dedicated, machine. It is sort of a resource hog.
ran all night and is running fine this morning.
In all fairness to the SSD drives, the first two that failed were EVO 840. I looked online and it seems there was a problem in the original BIOS for that model which, over time, made it unable to read the data. I may try updating the firmware, on the one I didn't throw out, to see if I can recover the lost data. The current boot drive is an EVO 850 which doesn't seem to have that particular problem. The power supply is an EVGA Gold 850 so I'm fairly confident the voltages are in spec but will have a look-see just to make sure.
The other thing is that the machine runs 24/7/365 and has three, high horsepower, video cards in it for folding@home. They generate a lot of heat and that may be giving the SSD drives a problem. I've got to figure out a way to get more air through that machine. In the mean time I have a new, conventional, 500GB drive on the way and will be cloning the SSD drive over to it in the VERY near future.
For my purposes, video surveillance and folding@home, a craptop just doesn't have the horsepower to handle the load those two apps produce. The CPU routinely sits at ~50% utilization, all the time, and as I add more cameras that load increases by about 3-4% per camera. At the rate I'm adding cameras I may just move video surveillance onto another, dedicated, machine. It is sort of a resource hog.
I set up video surveillance at my aunt Jan's place about 3 years ago with the Arlo system. 5 wifi cameras and a wifi base system cost around $1100.00. The base uses ac power, the cameras are li-on battery powered and are activated by sound or motion. They also have onboard speakers and mics so I can talk to a visitor through each individual camera. Video resolution is good but not quite hd quality and they have night vision. Batteries only need charged once every 6 months or so. The cell phone app works great and is full featured. The system also has geofencing so it can be setup up to turn off and on based on the presence of a cell phone or multiple cell phones on the property.
Just posting this for those who may be interested.
Just posting this for those who may be interested.
I use Blue Iris which has all that and more. The Dahua cameras I've moved to don't need IR at night if there's a little light around. I've been using auxiliary IR lights in the darker spots but they can actually produce color images at night, albeit a little grainy/noisy and a little dark. They're all PoE so only one cable to each and are all 1080P, 2MP, recording 24/7. I tried a WiFi camera and the RF environment here just doesn't allow for solid, full time, connections once you get out further than 100 feet from the router. More expensive than Arlo style stuff, but the quality level is much higher. I've also tried less expensive PoE cameras and they are all, basically, a waste of money compared to the Dahua stuff.
Those cameras are great from I've read. Definitely in a higher league. Major league cost to get it all up and running too.
Arlo now offers 1080p cameras too but yes, wifi range is limited. Still, the cameras require no cables which makes it ideal for the common DIYer.
Apples to Oranges comparison though.
Arlo now offers 1080p cameras too but yes, wifi range is limited. Still, the cameras require no cables which makes it ideal for the common DIYer.
Apples to Oranges comparison though.
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