[j-nsp] High failure rates for M7i/M10i hard disks?

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sat Aug 20 13:12:15 EDT 2005


>> why use movable parts, other than fans, in your routers?
> That is indeed a good question. I believe flash memory only supports
> a limited number of read/write cycles, which could be a problem for
> log files etc. I've seen 100.000 read/write cycles quoted several
> times - that would be slightly less than 3 years at 100 log writes
> per day.

i think that is kinda old flash fear.  and it is certainly far
longer than your spinning media seems to get you. :-)

randy



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