On 08/03/05 20:15, Jim O'Donald wrote:
That logic is completely false and you contradict yourself.
Pooh pooh.
Allowing for multiple points of failure does not mean that something is less reliable as you have described. It means that if/when one fails, the other will still be available.
But since as far as I know in =this= case they are "in line" and not in parallel one failure is a failure of the system. Availability of other parts isn't that interesting, I presume the stickers are stil readable and so on...
Two equal power supplies "in line": Twice as much the risk of a brakedown of the system and two times as much failures of power supplies.
Two equal power supplies in parallel: Half the risk of a brakedown of the system but still two times as much failures of power supplies and twice the support effort for the power supplies.
+++chefren
