2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 156: SanDisk Extreme Fail
Why fully remote work is on the wane as Zoom drags employees back to the office and Bluejeans is shut down, the Sandisk SSDs that keep failing, and how and why you should use ECC RAM in your home server if you can.
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News
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office
BlueJeans, Verizon’s Google Meet competitor you’ve never heard of, is shutting down
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken
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We were asked about ECC RAM in a home server.
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