GB-Flash uses a $10 CF to IDE adapter and a standard CF card. I would keep one or two around and some CF cards and you are golden.
Chris Green -----Original Message----- From: Cox, Danny H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:17 PM To: Joe Matuscak Cc: Chris Green; Gnatbox Subject: RE: [gb-users] VPN Routing (Centralization) I would hate to see the PRO disappear. GTA: I urge you to consider switching to one of the following solutions for the PRO: Hard Drive, ZIP drive, LS-120 Drive, or a combo of CD-ROM and floppy. You can have the mgmt. software (GBadmin) create an ISO file that can be used to burn a CR-ROM with 98% of all system needs, and use the floppy drive for all dynamic data needs. This should extend the life of the PRO for many years. Joe, Correct me if I am wrong... The PRO is not tied to any hardware, unlike the flash. If the PRO dies, you go to your local PC vendor (or your junk parts bin) get the parts you need and you are back up and running. No need for spare, proprietary hardware, again unlike the flash. If the flash fries, you are dead in the water. I know of this actually happening. This is especially dangerous in areas of high electrical storm activity (Texas, and the eastern states). I have seen entire systems burn, despite the use of very expensive power management solutions. For those of you not aware of this: Most surge suppression units are good for a limited amount of hits, based on power and duration of spike. I know, because I used to help design this equipment for the Power utilities industry -really boring stuff. I replace all surge suppression devices annually (my policy). Sorry for the long email. Danny -----Original Message----- From: Joe Matuscak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:58 AM To: Cox, Danny H. Cc: Chris Green; Gnatbox Subject: RE: [gb-users] VPN Routing (Centralization) On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Cox, Danny H. wrote: > If not, I would go with GB-Pro or 1000. > > I have used GB-PRO's with full T1 services and seen as little as 2% to > 6% usage with 3 VPN connections, all at full T1 saturation. This was in > a B2B development environment, and the GB was on a PII-450 platform. I thought the implication was that the GB-Pro wasn't long for this world, due to the floppy size limit. > The nice thing about the PRO is ability to easily move to faster > hardware. Thats what I say about the GBflash :-) Joe Matuscak Rohrer Corporation 717 Seville Road Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 (330)335-1541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
