On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:27:51AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: | Exchange, Groupwise, Lotus, various Unix setups. You name it. | | Day to day, no errors, no hardware going flakey, then anything will | work. In 'most' cases you will be suffering huge performance loses for | negligable increases in safety by disabling your cache. | | If nothing fails you don't need to cripple yourself by frankensteining | your hardware. Moving hardware configuration out of the manufacturer | recommended comfort zone will INCREASE your chances of failure. | | If you are trying to create a system where hardware (or software) | can never lose any of your data, you are Don Quixote and they are | windmills. Follow normal practise, backup religiously and you will | probably retire before the planets align and your data disappears. | In most cases. That's my plan.
This has been my experience too. Even though I've recently been hoping certain specific e-mails disappear in a large void, they all arrived somehow. Very unfortunate. ... Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/