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

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, 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. :-)
>
> randy

 	Please look that model number up & see when they LAST made one
 	those beasts ?  The sys that is in has a 3 year uptime .
 	Not doing much ,  but ...  imo ,  Get a better vendor for your
 	media .  JimL

Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00
   Vendor: SEAGATE  Model: ST410800WSUN9.0G Rev: 0407
   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02


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