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

[Jared Mauch]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 05:12:15PM +0000, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> 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. :-)

	I've seen much higher failure rates in the Flash media than
than the spinning media, as a datapoint.

	- jared

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