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I recently started doing a bit of memcache scripting to checkout some values in our memcache servers. Unfortunately, the python-memcached functions are not “exception catching” friendly. Looks like None is the value for anything.
Data Not Found = None
Connectivity Issue = None
get_stats = []
Not much help when trying to debug data issues when the same None value is returned by every condition. I’ll see what else I can find.
Summary: SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups.
And sometimes, they come back from the dead.
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On November 30 2010, I received my first SSD: a 240 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro.
On Thursday, November 10 2011, the…
Recent events make me appreciate the low level bits.
