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Hello there! Maurice Moss speaking. Today we’re going to discuss something that nearly drove me to call 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3 - enterprise SSDs that refuse to power on. You know that feeling when you’ve just installed a beautiful, high-capacity enterprise SSD - perhaps a Micron 5100, an Intel DC series, or similar datacenter drive - and you’re ready to experience storage nirvana? Your HBA detects all your old drives perfectly. But these expensive new SSDs? Nothing. No detection, no activity lights, completely dead. It’s like trying to get Roy to answer a support call before his first coffee. ...

Hello there, Today I want to share some absolutely brilliant Prometheus tricks that I’ve discovered while managing our monitoring systems. These are the kind of tricks that would make Roy actually look up from his phone! 1. Reloading Prometheus Without Restarting (Like Magic!) You know what’s really annoying? Having to restart Prometheus every time you make a configuration change. It’s like having to reboot your computer just to change your desktop wallpaper (which, by the way, I do recommend sometimes, just to be safe). ...