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As we go through this interesting time, we are trying to look at this as an opportunity to focus on our family and on friends like you. Let us use this extra time to catch up and talk more. Let us cook food that is not fast, but interesting and satisfying. Let us learn to enjoy a time to try new things. Let us find ways to enjoy time at home!

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Now offering consultations to give you the best protection possible:


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Jack of All Trades, and Master of Many

We provide technical support for:


Homes and small businesses

Windows and the Mac OS platform

iPhones and Android Smartphones

Wireless and wired networks

New device setup

Old device upgrade or repair

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Remote Support and Curb Service

1:44 PM  High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting  

High Tech House Calls Announces Remote Support and Curb Service For Computer and Network Issues
Remote support is now available to address any computer issue. You download install a program that allows us to connect to your computer remotely. 

 For more involved problems, we can pick up from computer from your front door. Once all issues have been resolved in our lab, your computer is sanitized with a CDC approved disinfectant and return to you with a minimum of human interaction.


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Remote Support and Curb Service

1:38 PM  High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting  

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An enterprise SSD flaw will brick hardware after exactly 40,000 hours by Steve Dent

12:52 PM  High Tech House Calls, Expert Computer Consulting  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has warned that certain SSD drives could fail catastrophically if buyers don't take action soon. Due to a firmware bug, the products in question will be bricked exactly 40,000 hours (four years, 206 days and 16 hours) after the SSD has entered service. "After the SSD failure occurs, neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered," the company warned in a customer service bulletin.
This type of issue would be terrible for consumers, but it's catastrophic for the enterprises that buy such drives. According to HPE's product description, they're designed for "big data analytics, cloud computing, active archiving, database applications and data warehousing." HPE sold them as standalone drives, but also as part if its HPE ProLiant, Synergy and other storage products.
A failure would be particularly disastrous in large RAID systems where the drives are usually used. Normally, the data is still protected in a RAID even if one or several drives fail. However, RAIDs are usually built with new drives purchased all at once, and as HPE pointed out, "SSDs which were put into service at the same time will likely fail nearly simultaneously." If that were to happen, companies would lose huge amounts of data.
The drives in question are 800GB and 1.6TB SAS models and storage products listed in the service bulletin here. It applies to any products with HPD7 or earlier firmware. HPE also includes instructions on how to update the firmware and check the total time on the drive to best plan an upgrade. According to HPE, the drives could start failing as early as October this year.
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