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

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