On 2/24/07, canuck15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice job on the articles Carla , > > Not sure if I agree with the statement in one of your articles that 2.5" > hard drives are not designed for 24/7. Todays 2.5" drives should last for > years and years running 24/7 provided they are not dropped or physically > shocked in some way while running. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. >
Canuck, That idea probably came from me... In the early days of my work with Soekris systems, I had several boxes with 2.5" IDE drives scattered around. Some of them were IBMs but most were Fujitsu (that was what Soekris was bundling at the time). It's far from scientific but I can tell you that I ended up removing and redesigning the sollution because there were so many drive failures. I don't know if I had a bad batch of drives, if there were some environment circumstances, etc but I can tell you that it scared me away from 2.5" drives in general. Some of the newer servers from big name manufacturers do in fact have 2.5" IDE drives in them. Most of these are SATA but the underlying drive mechanism is probably the same as their PATA counterparts. I'd like to think that these drives are more reliable than the ones I had a few years ago... Also, remember the mailing lists are moving to SourceForge: REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP! Thanks. -- Kristian Kielhofner _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP!
