Yeah I avoid Seagates after some drive failures. From what I read from the sources like backblaze, Seagate consumer models like Barracuda have higher failure rates than the enterprise models. Still I am not likely to trust them. However Western Digital has not done themselves any favors like putting SMR drives in their Red line intended for NAS uses.

Yes double actuators increase the speed of those drives. That does not mean that speed increase does not to help overall transfer speeds to overcome the larger size. It is still an issue. As an analogy that would be like replacing a lawnmower engine to have twice the horse power. That lawnmower moves twice as fast; it still is not going to challenge a F1 car anytime soon. The current problem again is that even if SAS-5 is finalized and adopted by the time of this drive, the max theoretical transfer rate of SAS-5 is 45 gigabits per second. It would take 4.9 hours under the most ideal circumstances to read all the data from a 100TB drive. That is not write speed.

Gen 5 SSDs currently are getting close to the 112 gigabits per second max which is 2+hours.

Yes but that creates a conundrum as transfer speeds for HDDs have not significantly increased with capacity. Rebuilding a ZFS array when a HDD fails can take a day sometimes.

They are not even comparing things like safety. The metric they cited is "completed trips per day". An autonomous car is going to have more trips per day than a human by the simple fact the autonomous car does not take breaks for silly things like eating, sleeping etc.

Which humans are included in the comparison would be important. I suspect most human drivers take a wide range of routes lasting a few minutes to an hour. If some of them only pick short routes and selective busy times to work they might beat the Waymo in the one metric of trips per day.

In the summary it says that Waymo cars are "completing more trips per day than over 99% of human drivers". Of course they are. They can run 24/7 while humans need to take breaks. Number of trips per hour worked would be more useful. It does not say that the cars are better drivers than humans. I would not be surprised if the numbers were skewed with parameters like restricting coverage to the downtown area where quick trips are the norm as opposed to airport runs which may take at least an hour roundtrip.

I can’t find the article but I was reading about how two Waymo cars caused a huge traffic jam in Austin. Two Waymo cars met at a four way stop intersection that had a lot of pedestrian traffic. With that scenario, both cars tried to yield to the other Waymo car while traffic backed up for miles. Complicating that is any pedestrian traffic would cause the car to reset whatever decision it decided to make.

Not a bit of applies. It's like all things Trump; it lacks any thought. He might have said every pixel of a film needs to be 100% American sourced and that would make just as much sense.

The employees of course but his stance is that it does not matter if 100% foreign labor is used; it's still "American" if the company was based in the USA. The broth is owned by a USA company therefore it's "American" according to his rules.

You said: "Again, the details are irrelevant" multiple times. You can scroll up. So now you are just lying about what you said.

Again you said none of that matters.

No my argument is that the other guys has all the answer but he really does not. Details don't matter to him as he said.

I can only assume that these AI PCs will sell to clueless executives who are chasing buzzwords: "But these PCs have AI that we need!"

End-users are not asking for this feature. Microsoft shareholders are so that MS can sell all that data.

From what I can tell, on paper, PIP serves two purposes. The public goal is to get lower performing employees to improve. Hopefully they just need some help, and the company may have sunk in costs for each employee. The other goal is litigation defense. Even though many states are right-to-work, anyone can file a lawsuit even for ridiculous reasons.

I worked with someone who was on a PIP. And he did not improve. I might have been the person that initiated the PIP as when I complained about this person I was told I was not the first to complain. Cognitive dissonance was would be the word to describe his work. He could be told in written instructions exactly what needed to be done to not only not do it a day later but question what needed to be done. Multiple times. Sometimes he would contradict the instructions: ”The email said to do this step using method B so I did. . . " The email said to use method A and never mentioned B.

While the PIP was painful, I see it as unfortunately necessary. Many states are right-to-work but anyone can sue. I see PIPs as HR/legal needed meticulous documentation that employees who should be fired have their suits quickly dismissed if they decide to sue.