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Good morning Lima labs residents! We’re in the process of upgrading the firmware on all of our Seagate Exos disks from SN02 to SN03. In… Read More »Firmware updates on Archive disks

We’re moving the planned storage work on 3/13 to 3/14. Beyond the 14th being much luckier than the 13th we’re running short of available hours.… Read More »Planned work on 3/13 move to 3/14

We replicate data from our UK based SCP server group to our French storage servers as a disaster recovery function. However that DR function just… Read More »Three UK based SCP servers impacted by France fire

Well eventually this was going to happen. We had a new 16TB drive go belly up on us. We were waiting for this event and… Read More »First disk failure and response 🙂

Lima labs have a small number <16 IP addresses in Canada that we use for among other things hosting our email server. Apparently someone with… Read More »Outlook.com blocking email from a large range of folks including Lima Labs

Three of our storage network’s Ethernet links have been persistently dropping out. So much so that we’ve the removed the entire port channel from use.… Read More »Second notice planned work 3/13 on Archive

After what was our busiest weekend ever traffic is now normalizing. There may be occasional ongoing hiccups for the next 24 hours but speeds are… Read More »All caught up Archive normalized

Good morning fellow data hoarders. Yes I admit it I am one as well! We’re still seeing lots of very heavy IO on the Archive… Read More »Still expanding and planned maintenance on 3/13

Wow… Just wow… people really do wait until the last minute to signup for a sale. We’re sorting things out now and adding customers this… Read More »WOW LOTS-O-SIGNUPS!

Good morning folks, we had a short blip this morning with Archive as we made some planned upgrades. We added a second 10Gbit line from… Read More »10Gbit more speed on the Archive backend!