I would have to agree with James, 3com are the worst, but in my experience I have seen many more NICs die than harddrives. It seems that back in the old days Hard drives had a lot of developmnet work done on them to improve the reliability of them to such a point that these days you have to be unlucky to have a drive fail, and while the comment about moving parts is reasonable, the parts are all manufactured to a very high precision (unless its a Fujitsu of course LOL ).
Net cards on the other hand range in price from $15 upwards and because of this cheap price, are in many ways considered expendable. So in partial answer to this question, is there a way to bond the cards together under Linux??? (for Bond read Etherchannel, trunking, Virtual Interfacing) This may be the answer. just my 2pence worth On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 16:51, James Deck, Central Office wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >But I figure that disks are moving parts > >and moving parts scare me > > I have seen many 3Com cards fail, many more than our server hard drives. > Many, many more... > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Alan & Jan Harding Tel: 07715 539272 "One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
