On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:27:35AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > >For any small (read: DS3 or less), a PC based firewall will perform just as > >well as a hardware firewall. On the other hand, do you _want_ to be paged > >at > >4am because your PC based firewall ate a disk? > > > > Don't know. > My disk is 8 years old and still spinning. > > If the only thing I had to worry about was one call every 8 years I would > be pretty happy! > > Get a really slow drive, they last longer.
Or get 2 really slow drives and use software RAID... then if one disk dies, it'll keep going off the other one; the pager message tells you this, and you can go back to sleep and fix it in the morning. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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