> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 4:52 PM > To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Software raid, booting and bios > > 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. Yeah, the number of moving parts in a hard drive is minimal. OTOH, it's not zero. > 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). Oh, we have quite a number of embedded controllers with SCSI hard drives that have been spinning continuously since 1992. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
