I think you might want to investigate a SATA DOM (Disk on module). My
Thecus 5200 uses on and it seems a neat solution.
eg
http://www.innodisk.com/flashstorage-list.jsp?items_name=satadom
Simon
On 21/05/2011 09:19, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
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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.
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