On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > My two-penneth into this : > The reference to bearing failures might be OK - however I think most HDD > use voice coils for the head movement these days.. > Mike ( are we going to see you guys at the LUV BBQ ? ) > ​ Yes they do use voice coils for head movement but they use stepper motors to spin the platters​
> > On 16/01/15 14:55, Toby Corkindale wrote: > >> On 16 January 2015 at 14:25, Andrew McGlashan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 16/01/2015 1:51 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: >>> >>>> You know, what you said doesn't really make sense. >>>> You acknowledge that SSDs offer significant benefits to your workload, >>>> and you seem to acknowledge that SSDs are actually completely fine for >>>> durability of your workload.. So why are you still saying you wouldn't >>>> use one? >>>> >>> Well ..... yes SSD are very good, but given what I've seen with TB, I >>> believe it would still be a premature end of life -- still it might be >>> good for quite a while. >>> >> If by "quite a while" you mean "If I received a million emails every >> day, my drive would still possibly last more than the rest of my life" >> :) >> >> Anyway, never mind. It's your choice. I'm just trying to point out >> that once you check the numbers, this technology doesn't need to be >> scary to you. And once it's going, it's more reliable than your hard >> drives that can suffer stepper motor or bearing failures due to all >> their moving parts. >> >> -Toby >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-main mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >> > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main > -- Mark "Pockets" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: [email protected] G-Talk: [email protected] GNU/Linux..Linux Counter #457297 - "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are"
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