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

[Joe McGuckin]

It seems like this was an ill-advised attempt to lower the manufacturing
cost of the RE. 

However, for the price they charge for the RE ($15,000 list price for
compact PCI cpu card that probably cost them no more than $2500), one would
certainly think that Juniper would specify 'industrial' or 'server' quality
components. I hope we're not going to see further reliability issues because
some purchasing manager decided to save $20 by specifying other components
that were designed with a lifetime 5% or 10% duty-cycle.

Joe


On 8/26/05 1:02 PM, "Saku Ytti" <saku+juniper-nsp at ytti.fi> wrote:

> On (2005-08-26 15:55 -0400), Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> 
>>> And that field alert is now out: PSN-2005-08-014
>>> 
>>> https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber
>>> =PSN-2005-08-014&viewMode=view
>> 
>> I hope they're not actually saying that the hard drive can't handle being
>> written to every 10 secs?
>>
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