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  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    @FAT32 said: I am bored, let's have some fun

    I obtained the last 300 posts by VirMach, filtered his top 100 words (>= 5 letters), and randomly selected 20 words from the list to create a word search, have fun

    Here's the first 10 so far.

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider
    edited April 2022

    I never liked these things but I guess it can be quite enjoyable and easy when it involves your most utilized words! You just have to look for [a] all synonyms of maybe, [b] the systems and hardware you've been complaining about, [c] add in a bunch of random words I definitely didn't say but exist there to pretend like I finished it.

    (edit) [d] randomly find a few more words and edit it in.

  • JeDaYoshiJeDaYoshi Member
    edited April 2022

    @VirMach said:
    Tokyo should be at 100% right now

    My 2.5 GB VM is still not provisioned and I've been waiting a while for that, so I'm not sure how accurate is that "100%". I'd guess I'm on "manual review", since it was my first order with VirMach?

    I'm still silently waiting though, I just have no idea with the status of my service.

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    @JeDaYoshi said:

    @VirMach said:
    Tokyo should be at 100% right now

    My 2.5 GB VM is still not provisioned and I've been waiting a while for that, so I'm not sure how accurate is that "100%". I'd guess I'm on "manual review", since it was my first order with VirMach?

    I'm still silently waiting though, I just have no idea with the status of my service.

    You might want to quote the rest of the message you quoted.

  • @VirMach said:
    You might want to quote the rest of the message you quoted.

    Ah, so I might have misunderstood originally.
    Does it mean then that there's still ~200 VMs unprovisioned because they were thought to be, but were instead duplicates of already provisioned VMs?

    I guess I can't read right now.

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider
    edited April 2022

    @JeDaYoshi said: Does it mean then that there's still ~200 VMs unprovisioned because they were thought to be, but were instead duplicates of already provisioned VMs?

    Correct, in terms of the estimation. So our estimates were off by a little bit. A lot of these also happened with the re-creation script to migrate so they were recent, and now it's taking up room that could have otherwise been used. Just updating for the reason for the last 200 taking longer.

    Otherwise we would have been at 100% but we're not at 100%

  • AlefAlef Member
    edited April 2022

    Found most of them. Some of them like TYOC040 are impossible, unless you read his posts.

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  • JeDaYoshiJeDaYoshi Member
    edited April 2022

    @VirMach: Understandable, thank you for the clarification. Time to wait a bit more then :)

  • @VirMach said:
    Maybe their company philosophy is to use garbage past the first NAND and hope their customers do not use them enough to hit the warranty swap period or maybe they just decline all RMA requests and strategically break their contact forms.

    A lot of the shitty SSD companies also rate TBW this way, make a drive that can only really do 400TBW and then rate it for 1600, but have a RMA system so bad that most people will just give up. Adata is known for switching around NAND/controllers so it wouldn't shock me if the same thing happened here. Their firmware has also never been too great, that might be what's causing some of the issues since it's the only thing they really directly control. Hope you guys end up buying more of the P31 to replace those adata drives, I really like my VM on that ssd.

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  • tl;dr, wait.

  • @VirMach said:

    @JeDaYoshi said: Does it mean then that there's still ~200 VMs unprovisioned because they were thought to be, but were instead duplicates of already provisioned VMs?

    Correct, in terms of the estimation. So our estimates were off by a little bit. A lot of these also happened with the re-creation script to migrate so they were recent, and now it's taking up room that could have otherwise been used. Just updating for the reason for the last 200 taking longer.

    Otherwise we would have been at 100% but we're not at 100%

    This pot, Google translate to memorize

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    @LiliLabs said: Their firmware has also never been too great, that might be what's causing some of the issues since it's the only thing they really directly control.

    Yes, this 100% caused the issue. We do have other drives from Mushkin with similar but less severe issue and the kernel fix we had for them worked for both, but Mushkin is actually working with us to push out a firmware update. They've been very responsive, I've just been the one too busy to reply to their engineer's latest requests.

    @LiliLabs said: Hope you guys end up buying more of the P31 to replace those adata drives, I really like my VM on that ssd.

    Yes we already have excess disks. We had excess Mushkin Gen4 as well as excess P31, Samsung, and Mushkin for the Gen3. Luckily I suck at keeping inventory so I definitely bought too many. We also bought about 50% more than we needed to start with just to ship out servers with 6TB instead of 4TB even though our average usage per node would be closer to 4TB so we're good there as well. This leaves most nodes with extra space should something go wrong. As in, they won't have a disk bottleneck.

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  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    @Alef said:

    Found most of them. Some of them like TYOC040 are impossible, unless you read his posts.

    ISSUE! How did I miss that one, it's all I've been having for a week.

  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire

    @VirMach said:
    I never liked these things but I guess it can be quite enjoyable and easy when it involves your most utilized words! You just have to look for [a] all synonyms of maybe, [b] the systems and hardware you've been complaining about, [c] add in a bunch of random words I definitely didn't say but exist there to pretend like I finished it.

    I am surprised and happy that you enjoy playing it :joy: There's only 2 more missing and I am very impressed by how fast you completed it :smiley:

    For anyone interested, here's the solution (I made a small mistake but you get the idea):



  • FAT32FAT32 Administrator, Deal Compiler Extraordinaire
    edited April 2022

    @Alef said:
    Found most of them. Some of them like TYOC040 are impossible, unless you read his posts.

    Great job! :smiley: Yup that's why this is just for fun, not meant to be an actual English word search :joy:

    Thanks for playing it :)

  • Are you still processing the paid Ryzen preorder from the last year? Mine is still on the "complementary server" and not even changed after that.

  • @VirMach said:

    @764664 said:

    @VirMach said:
    I've already explained the misunderstanding here, somewhere in between page 100 and 160 if you want to go take a look.

    I have read all the pages actually. IIRC, you were claiming all pre-orders are getting activated on the first batch. However, biennial pre-order doesn't seem to get any advantage after all, compared to what's written in the original post. I understand you're extremely busy, but facts are facts.

    Yes, it was a very large batch, and since everyone else got the same advantage for free there was technically no difference. But I will now accept that some of these did not get created on the first batch, but got created on the second batch, so if anyone is unhappy I can try to make things right with a refund but I am assuming that they do not want that, so what do you propose?

    My tokyo biennial didn't make either batch, still pending, but then I'm not unhappy or in any rush, if I was I wouldn't have bought a preorder. I ended up cancelling a yearly preorder to make the biennial to make sure I got on the newer Ryzen, I hope I didn't get bumped to the back as a problematic customer, I really try not to be at least

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  • The entire pre -sale process of Tokyo: Start pre -sale − Order accessories ~ accessories issued ~ passing the Pacific ~ Pacific Wind Large ~ Customs Inspection Delay ~ Customs Detention ~ Show the delay of the document ~ Arrived in Tokyo ~ third -party configuration fault ~ Continue to buy accessories ~ Panel ~ Panel ~ Panel Bug ~ delay repair ~ Sunday delay ... ... Pired = refund, refund = boot, o:) o:)

  • @VirMach said: There are about 200 disappointed people, and 2300+ other people

    Does this mean that there are still 200 people left to activate for the March Tokyo pre-sale
    Or this mean that after activating the remaining 200 copies there are still 2300+ people left?

  • @VirMach said:

    @Alef said:

    Found most of them. Some of them like TYOC040 are impossible, unless you read his posts.

    ISSUE! How did I miss that one, it's all I've been having for a week.

    my 2560 is activated on TYOC038, but offline, please help me

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider
    edited April 2022

    @ricannardo said:
    Are you still processing the paid Ryzen preorder from the last year? Mine is still on the "complementary server" and not even changed after that.

    Dedicated servers? No progress. In fact, we've regressed. We just couldn't do it. We needed the chassis for these Ryzen servers so although many of them were done, I had to gut them for the chassis. There's a huge chassis shortage it seems, at least the ones we're meant to be using because of the whole supply chain issue and increased shipping costs ensures that it's difficult to get them within budget either way. They also quite literally doubled in price.

    The philosophy was unfortunately it's better to have one customer on an E3 and migrate that late and upset the customer versus upset 100-200 people on a node it could become instead.

    I will still have some extras, but they'll be the ones that have rails that are difficult to purchase. I've found some universal rails that work with them though but this means we have to move all the motherboards and drives from the ones we're using for Ryzen, and move them into these other chassis.

    @bakageta said:

    @VirMach said:

    @764664 said:

    @VirMach said:
    I've already explained the misunderstanding here, somewhere in between page 100 and 160 if you want to go take a look.

    I have read all the pages actually. IIRC, you were claiming all pre-orders are getting activated on the first batch. However, biennial pre-order doesn't seem to get any advantage after all, compared to what's written in the original post. I understand you're extremely busy, but facts are facts.

    Yes, it was a very large batch, and since everyone else got the same advantage for free there was technically no difference. But I will now accept that some of these did not get created on the first batch, but got created on the second batch, so if anyone is unhappy I can try to make things right with a refund but I am assuming that they do not want that, so what do you propose?

    My tokyo biennial didn't make either batch, still pending, but then I'm not unhappy or in any rush, if I was I wouldn't have bought a preorder. I ended up cancelling a yearly preorder to make the biennial to make sure I got on the newer Ryzen, I hope I didn't get bumped to the back as a problematic customer, I really try not to be at least

    Just unlucky with the way we ended up automating these, it created the smaller plans first.

    There's barely any of these left compared to the total quantity activated though so I'm hoping they get activated soon™

    @sky3967 said:

    @VirMach said: There are about 200 disappointed people, and 2300+ other people

    Does this mean that there are still 200 people left to activate for the March Tokyo pre-sale
    Or this mean that after activating the remaining 200 copies there are still 2300+ people left?

    2300~ activated but probably closed to 2100~ because 200~ of them are duplicates we need to clean up. And 200 left.

  • @VirMach said:

    @cybertech said:

    @VirMach said:

    @fan said:
    I think I'll avoid XPG disks next time building my rig. B)

    It's so funny, I remember avoiding XPG (then just called ADATA) something like 15 years back... and I researched them to an extreme level and I specifically bought the disks that were using good controllers and had good reviews. Still looks like they're awful, I should have just stuck to my gut on these initially. I did do an extreme amount of testing on them as well and they worked fine in all my testing... I guess it's just something about them paired up with a hundred LVMs for virtual machines doing different disk operations all at once that gets them riled up and broken.

    arent they still called Adata? and the model is XPG8200 PRO or something

    I think everyone avoided ADATA so they kept their company name ADATA and they specifically launched the "XPG" branding for their recent NVMe drives.

    But the model is SX8200 Pro, and their brand name is definitely "XPG" now. Some places do advertise it as ADATA XPG and others just go by XPG SX8200 Pro for that specific model. It may still mention that the "seller" is ADATA Technology Co Ltd though.

    ADATA is shit,I am sure.

  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider

    All services outside of maybe 5 of them have been recreated for SJCZ003 and SJCZ007 issue. Most TYOC038 have been recreated. Some still need to be created if they never created properly in the first place on TYOC038. And SEAZ001 is still having issues, I'm trying to look at that again next.

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  • Atlanta server!! yahoooooo!!

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    Yet-Another-Bench-Script

    v2022-02-18

    https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script

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    Sun Apr 24 01:08:46 EDT 2022

    Basic System Information:

    Processor : AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-Core Processor
    CPU cores : 2 @ 3493.436 MHz
    AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
    RAM : 2.3 GiB
    Swap : 256.0 MiB
    Disk : 49.0 GiB

    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):

    Block Size 4k (IOPS) 64k (IOPS)
    Read 487.29 MB/s (121.8k) 4.33 GB/s (67.6k)
    Write 488.57 MB/s (122.1k) 4.35 GB/s (68.0k)
    Total 975.87 MB/s (243.9k) 8.68 GB/s (135.6k)
    Block Size 512k (IOPS) 1m (IOPS)
    ------ --- ---- ---- ----
    Read 4.40 GB/s (8.5k) 3.81 GB/s (3.7k)
    Write 4.63 GB/s (9.0k) 4.06 GB/s (3.9k)
    Total 9.03 GB/s (17.6k) 7.88 GB/s (7.6k)

    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):

    Provider | Location (Link) | Send Speed | Recv Speed
    | | |
    Clouvider | London, UK (10G) | 850 Mbits/sec | 271 Mbits/sec
    Online.net | Paris, FR (10G) | 776 Mbits/sec | 263 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream | The Netherlands (10G) | 865 Mbits/sec | 297 Mbits/sec
    WebHorizon | Singapore (400M) | busy | busy
    Clouvider | NYC, NY, US (10G) | 933 Mbits/sec | 935 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 926 Mbits/sec | 805 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 841 Mbits/sec | 477 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom | Sao Paulo, BR (2G) | busy | busy

    Thanked by 3VirMach FrankZ xpreboun
  • VirMachVirMach Member, Patron Provider
    edited April 2022

    I'm going to do an inventory of all servers out in the wild with an XPG drive and [A] move everyone off the disks ASAP in an emergency migration, and [B] remove them from the active pool until we can get the XPG drive out and incinerated.

    SEAZ001 has scheduled maintenance right now with DC hands to remove the drive and place it on a brand new server so I can try to move as much data off it as I can before it fully breaks (if that hasn't already happened.)

    TYOC038 will be after these two, since the people still facing issues never had a functional service to begin with (unless I made an error) then we're considering this less urgent. You'll of course have your due date reset.

  • @VirMach said:

    @fan said:

    @VirMach said: use garbage past the first NAND

    More likely they use good NAND's on the first batches and review samples to establish some kind of reputation, and swap to trash NAND's when making more to maximize profit. This is a known behavior across many vendors, SX8200 Pro is surely one of the notorious ones.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers-swapping-parts

    It's actually funny, I think it goes further than that by the way, at least for the Gen4. I think they use good NAND or something to that effect for the first cell/chip and then switch over to dog turds after because all of these seem to fail after the first 200-300GB is filled.

    Then they just cross their fingers that some gamer bought it and will only use 200GB for the first year.

    They're essentially doing that flash drive scam, but as a semi-reputable company, where you can only fill the first X amount.

    Are they still working? Sounds like you need recycling at a reasonable price. Let me know, I knew a branch of PC players who can accept used hardware's.

  • NoCommentNoComment Member
    edited April 2022

    @fan said:

    @VirMach said: use garbage past the first NAND

    More likely they use good NAND's on the first batches and review samples to establish some kind of reputation, and swap to trash NAND's when making more to maximize profit. This is a known behavior across many vendors, SX8200 Pro is surely one of the notorious ones.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adata-and-other-ssd-makers-swapping-parts

    It's actually funny, I think it goes further than that by the way, at least for the Gen4. I think they use good NAND or something to that effect for the first cell/chip and then switch over to dog turds after because all of these seem to fail after the first 200-300GB is filled.

    Then they just cross their fingers that some gamer bought it and will only use 200GB for the first year.

    They're essentially doing that flash drive scam, but as a semi-reputable company, where you can only fill the first X amount.

    You can blame their firmware or implementation or things like that but not the NAND. The NANDs are all sourced from the same few brands and they are not stupid enough to sell "bad" NANDs. Also, what really gives them the nice benchmark speeds is by using the unused space as SLC cache so having a mix of good and bad NANDs wouldn't work out anyway.

  • FrankZFrankZ Barred
    edited April 2022

    @VirMach said: until we can get the XPG drive out and incinerated.

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  • @FrankZ said:

    @VirMach said: until we can get the XPG drive out and incinerated.

    When your SEAZ001 VPS had issue do you also see "Could not read from boot disk"? That's what I am seeing right now after I saw Virmach's update.

    @VirMach
    I have tried to replace ISO (mount/unmount) and install template for SJCZ002 and mine still does not work, I'll open a ticket on this issue.

    Also, DALZ003 is acting weird. The service is online and I can connect to VNC, however it doesn't look like the IP is routed (both inbound and outbound). On the service via VNC, everything is "No route to host". Used Ubuntu 20.04 and AlamaLinux (both installed via template) and also tried to reconfigure network.

  • reb0rnreb0rn Member
    edited April 2022

    just leave DALZ003 i tried to migrate to same location and change ip, now i have 2 ips and still broken, looks like auto script that created VPS did not connect ip4 to VPS

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