oreillymj wrote:
Just going back to the orignal reason the poster asked this question, a
car based Slimserver.
Has anyone got experience of runing a hard-drive continuously in a
car.
I'd have thought the constant shocks would dramatically shorten the
lifespan of a HD. The roads in this country vary from good motorway to
tarmac'd donkey tracks. I'd imagine I'd get less than a week out of a
HD before it started reporting errors.
I've been running an iRiver H140 in my car permanently for the last 3
years. It's been in there 24/7 on cold nights and hot days and it
survived speedbumps with no problems. Laptop drives are designed to
withstand this kind of thing. Desktop drives are ridiculously cheap so
you can easily afford to replace one if it should break. The data is
usually just a copy/selection of you main library so backups aren't an
issue. In practice this shouldn't be a problem.
>From what I've heard the life span of iPOD HD's is about 2-3yrs and
they have intelligent caching so that the HD spends most of it's time
idle with songs playing back from RAM. The HD just spin's up to fill
the cache and then shut's off.
iPods have the same drives as my iRiver. If you carry it around in your
pocket it will fall to the ground sometimes. My iRiver has bounced
across Amsterdam street on occasion to no ill effect. That would be much
worse than having it in a car, that's protected with shock absorbers and
crumple zones.
Since Slimserver does not do this, it would need the OS on the NSLU to
cache transparently.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Regards,
Peter
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