From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software raid, booting and bios
Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 05:52:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD6E293.8000503@wasp.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD6C1EB.1030907@turmel.org>
On 21/05/11 03:32, Phil Turmel wrote:
> the big deal is the lack of moving parts: No spindle bearing, no head positioner gear train.
Sorry, this just tickled me. "gear train" ? Which decade are we talking about? The last drive I saw
that had any form of mechanical power transfer mechanism for head positioning was a 60MB RLL Seagate
clunker.
Now, to add some form of use to the thread I've been using commodity CF cards in home-brew CF to ATA
adaptors in embedded systems for 10 years. Flash is _the_ way to go for high reliability systems
that don't have lots of write cycles.
My TV box that has no on-board PXE has been booting from a 10MB USB stick using loadlinux since
2003. Dead reliable after ~69,000 hours power on time. I've not had a hard disk last that long since
my old 200MB WD IDE drive (which is still running with over 100,000 hours on it).
Brad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-20 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-20 7:19 Software raid, booting and bios Simon Mcnair
2011-05-20 8:33 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 8:56 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-05-20 9:33 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 10:00 ` Simon McNair
2011-05-21 16:43 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 12:11 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-20 13:22 ` Gordon Henderson
2011-05-20 15:53 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 19:32 ` Phil Turmel
2011-05-20 21:27 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-05-20 21:52 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
2011-05-21 8:19 ` Leslie Rhorer
2011-05-22 6:31 ` Simon McNair
2011-05-20 10:04 ` CoolCold
2011-05-20 19:13 ` Ed W
2011-05-21 16:58 ` Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-21 19:57 ` Ed W
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-05-20 6:54 Paul van der Vlis
2011-05-20 7:03 ` Simon Mcnair
2011-05-20 7:14 ` Paul van der Vlis
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