On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:25:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > 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
USB sticks primary cause of death is the washing machine and/or dryer. Second one probably is sitting out in the sun. I have yet to see the USB stick that dies because it was written to.
