On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:13 -0700 Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> I figured, hey, solid- state will work forever and 20 years, > whichever comes first. ... Unfortunately, from experience, no moving parts (if that's what you mean my solid-state; if not, disregard the rest of this mail :) ) doesn't equal non-failure. Just a bit less likely to fail. PSUs still die on you, capacitors still "blow up", microchips still get fried if not properly cooled, flash memory "wears out" etc. I've had all sorts of switches die on me in strage ways, a couple of them the same way it happened to you (they suddenly refused to switch packets). Currently I'm in the middle of replacing three ProCurve switches (oldest one bought within a year) because the NVRAM became read-only all of a sudden. I really hope the service guys will be able to tell me what happened (if it was an environment issue, firmware bug, a bad batch of chips...). Regards, -- Theo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
