On Thu, 20 May 2010 18:53:38 +0200 Henning Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> * Xavier Beaudouin <[email protected]> [2010-05-20 17:34]: > > And if you don't want to suffer because of a harddisk failure you can also > > use > > flashrd to make the openbsd stuff on a DOM, a Compact Flash or even an USB > > key. > > 1) flashrd and friends are bullshit, just use your CF/DOM/Whatever > like a regular harddisk. the write cycle myth is just a myth these > days, the current stuff copes transparently. > > 2) flash never fails, right. fuck redundancy, I have flash! > > -- > Henning Brauer, [email protected], [email protected] > BS Web Services, http://bsws.de > Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services > Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting > If you check usb flash stick packaging, it may say guaranteed for a 1000 writes which is marketing crypto speech for, sectors may fail after 1000 writes. I've also had a usb stick fail due to the pcb inside dying, which could happen to your motherbaord, network card, fans causing overheat. Things akin to backup dns entries and carp are always the way to go, if you can. And for backup a power surge can always take out a whole raid set anyway and though the platters should be alright, I'm not so sure flash would survive. Raid hasn't entered into my backup strategy's yet. I'd only use it if I had money to throw away and data that had to be stored faster than a network card could carry it with absolutely no loss of any sectors, or maybe as a last extra layer of redundancy. KeV
