----- Original Message ----- From: RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:50 pm Subject: Re: help needed with laptop hdd To: "misc@openbsd.org" <misc@openbsd.org>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:26:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive > for > >regular use anyway. Flash and super dense mag drives seem fine > for use > >if write/erase only happens occasionally (i.e. embedded/mp3 etc...) > > > >The next step: > > The next step is to find some justification for your statement about > longevity. > > I remember early nand tech that wore out in a few days or maybe hours. > > That isn't now. I have attempted to wear out an Apacer CF 512MB by > doing a regular install of OpenBSD (no memfs, no mount ro) and then > turning the most verbose logging possible for spamd with daily > rotations. I then used it to run a firewall in front of a moderately > busy mailserver that had hundreds of spamtrap addresses. > > After fourteen months I gave up and put the spamd stuff on the > mailserver (simply to keep all the email process on one box) at the > next OS update. > > I have about a dozen client sites for one company that store all their > inventory data on CF at their branch firewalls on a similar CF. > Updatesdaily from head office overwrite the data. > No problems. > > I saw some info recently that showed that flash technology is now less > likely to fail than a spinny disk. Wish I'd kept a link to it > because I > don't really have time to Google it ATM. > > Price is the killer on the basis of storage size but it is heading > downfast. We already have one flash drive in a desktop PC and it > is slick. > > For laptops the ruggedness is tops. > > R/ > > From the land "down under": Australia. > Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? > I guess they are great and I'm an idiot, nuff said...
