Juan Sandro wrote: > Hi > > We have a number offices accommodating 4-6 people each hence it is very > important for PBX to be fanless and silent. We have been looking at using > IDE flash disks also called DOM. The performance tests we have done so far > satisfy our requirements, however we are concerned with DOM durability. > > We have installed debian and vanilla asterisk on 1GB DOM. All seems to work > fine at the moment however will DOM last? How long it will last? Is anyone > able to share similar experience? Any other information/tips? >
I worried a lot about the same, in the end I went for a small laptop drive for "safety" (it's inaudible) However, this came up on slashdot recently and if you search around the logic seems to be that: - Flash rewrites quite a few times - The good stuff has wear levelling so that most roughly speaking the whole thing should work until it suddenly all fails - Given a big enough drive with a fair bit of free space then you should find it hard to wear it out in less than quite a few years even if you are hitting it quite hard (probably multiples of this). Simply do the maths to get the rough life So basically it seems that given a large enough flash drive with decent wear levelling the lifetime should be completely ample... ...Thats the theory anyway. I feel quite bullish about the whole thing, but I think I would avoid the *really* discounted cheapo flash drives since they may not have the correct wear levelling. Decent brand names should be fine though (and you can google for details on their specs) Ed W _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
