Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 7, 2021

• The Seagate ST3000DM001
  • class action
• [@2:01](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=121) Bryan and Adam’s experience 
  • Fishworks
  • HGST
  • Bryan is unable to forget SU0D > This thing damn near ruined our lives
  • Broad Institute
  • The Seagate Barracuda product line. 7200.10, 7200.11
• [@8:10](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=490) Tough customers
• [@10:17](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=617) Cargo cultism and bad interview questions 
  • What is a Good New Englander? We’re not a hugging people.
• [@12:35](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=755) Adam and Bryan after Sean Manaea’s 2018 no-no
• The Gift of the Magi, LBA
• [@15:11](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=911) Adam torments the interns
• [@16:41](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1001) Bill and the HP Z620s
  • The Wisdom of James Mickens
• [@19:21](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1161) Rick’s story 
  • Fast and loose firmware source control
  • Western Digital’s Sparta drive, flying too low
• [@25:34](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1534) Need for open source firmware (see also: Bryan explains why 26:54">proprietary firmware is a problem ~3mins) 
  • Vendor gaslighting
• [@27:48](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1668) Tom on custom firmware 
  • Rent seeking
  • S.M.A.R.T.
  • ADM-3A “dumb terminal”
• [@32:08](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=1928) Adam’s firmware horror story flashbacks 
  • HBA
  • When turning it off and on again isn’t enough: unplug and replug
  • Sun’s ILOM bug
  • Sun’s embarrassing ticker symbol change
• [@38:10](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=2290) After Sun > Stay the hell away from hardware
• [@39:55](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=2395) Hard drive API wish list? 
  • Adam’s series on APFS > There is no bit rot here..
  • Networking vs Storage. Intermittent, transient failure
• [@44:40](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=2680) Firmware as differentiator 
  • Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)
  • Microwave-assisted magentic recording (MAMR)
  • see also: Jessie’s Life of a Data Byte surveys storage media tech through history
  • Amazing physics, mediocre firmware. Firmware is software
• [@48:23](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=2903) The only firmware that didn’t give us problems.. 
  • Adam on flash: A File System All Its Own, Flash Storage Today, History of SSDs blog entry mentioning sTec and Gnutek
  • sTec aquires Gnutek Ltd
  • The SEC’s complaint against Manouchehr Moshayedi of sTec
  • Channel stuffing
  • See also: Bryan mentions sTec misconduct on the 29:03">Data Center Podcast
• [@54:04](https://youtu.be/qisoAIx8EE8?t=3244) Sans firmware? 
  • FPGA to ASIC transition article 2011. (aside: treat yourself to this amazing vintage mouse-themed site announcing the same) > It’s when microprocessors show up that all the trouble starts.