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reliability

Q. Some service provider guarantees 99.999% uptime for their service. Can you explain meaning of five nines?

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Q. How do I read my hard disk temperature using smartool under FreeBSD operating system?
A. smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose [...]

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Q. What are the different RAID levels? Which one is recommended for file server and database server?

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Q. Can you explain the difference between UDP and TCP internet protocol (IP) traffic and its usage with an example?
A. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP)is a transportation protocol that is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. Both TCP and UDP work at transport layer TCP/IP model and [...]

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