* Kevin Chadwick <[email protected]> [2010-05-21 11:28]: > 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!
> 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. cut the crap. take a random usb stick and don't mail misc until it fails due to exceeded write cycles. we'll never again hear form you in life. > 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. see? as I said, they fail, but not for write cycles. -- 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
