> Just want to get some feedback from you guys then, do you normally leave > a HDD in a soekris box, are these boxes doing that many frequent writes that > can't be buffered in RAM?
It's interesting to read the uses/approaches to use of flash. >From an ops (effort+$$$) standpoint, having given some thought to the approaches here, I'm leaning towards a 'standard' roll-out of soekris + 'just' hdd. The $$$ of HDDs is low enough for us to consider them consumables as well. And, with a properly set up & secured tftp/nfs service, a remote user -- even over a 'slow' wire/net -- can quite easily start a scripted install, leave it overnight, and have a fully-functioning 'plain vanilla' *BSD in the morning. I'd consider putting flash + nanobsd in admins'/tech-users' boxes on request ... but see it as a nice-to-have. In the case of a dead HDD, since we back up our remote boxes with bacula anyway, it's just as easy to swap a 'fresh' drive in and restore as to boot from flash & repair. Yes, there are shades-of-gray to the args. --Tenzen _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
