On 10/10/05, Kelsey Hartigan Go <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > > > I think the key to this post is that ordinary computers have a lot of > > 'moving' 'mechanical' parts > > in them. Moving parts include CPU fan, Power Supply Fan, Hard Disk, > > CDROM drive etc. > > All of which can fail at any time due to the nature of mechanical > > parts. This means a greater > > chance of network failures due to these issues. Tha'ts why i prefer > > to deploy a re-flashed linksys router than an actual PC unless there > > is another underlying reason not to do so. > > > > Just to segway... > has anyone here used solid state IDE disk drives?...or just memory with > ide interface?
Most SD and CF cards would have IDE interfaces... they are generally resistant to mechanical failure but are limited by the finite amount of read/write operations you can use on these devices until they conk out. Flash memory as found in solid-state hard disks are quite expensive... -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
