Looks really bad! On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM, RogerN <[email protected]> wrote: > At work we use Siemens Mircobox 427 PC's to control machines. They have a > heat sink on the back and don't have a fan. Some of them are using compact > flash for a hard drive and we use EWFMGR Enhanced Write Filter Manager to > protect the CF cards because of the way windows is always writing to the > hard drive, damaging CF cards in a few months. If you use EWF on the C: > drive and store data to the D: drive it will prevent you from losing data > changes on every reboot. I'm not sure if Linux has an equivalent to Windows > Enhanced Write Filter but perhaps. Also, since this is about the > reliability subject, I should mention that we had 10-12 Siemens MicroBox > failures within the last year and only 1 Allen Bradley PLC processor, and we > probably have 5 times as many AB PLC's as we do Siemens MicroBox PC's and > the Allen Bradley PLC's are several years older than the MicroBox PC's. In > other words, the Siemens MicroBox doesn't seem to qualify as an > Untra-reliable PC! > > Roger Neal > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ian W. Wright" <[email protected]> > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 4:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT ultra-reliable, long life PC > > >> FWIW, I've had to replace the SSD in my son's quite >> expensive notebook twice in less than 15 months. I've seen a >> couple of articles saying how they have only a limited >> number of read/write cycles before they are lible to fail - >> I don't think I'd like to trust important data to one yet... >> >> Ian >>>> I have a SSD in my office computer for the fantastic speed. However it >>>> did fail after less than 6 months which is rather worrying. It was >>>> replaced under warranty but it doesn't bode well for long term life. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America >> contest >> Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada >> $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in >> marketing >> Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >
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