Just going back to the orignal reason the poster asked this question, a car based Slimserver.
Has anyone got experience of runing a hard-drive continuously in a car. I'd have thought the constant shocks would dramatically shorten the lifespan of a HD. The roads in this country vary from good motorway to tarmac'd donkey tracks. I'd imagine I'd get less than a week out of a HD before it started reporting errors. >From what I've heard the life span of iPOD HD's is about 2-3yrs and they have intelligent caching so that the HD spends most of it's time idle with songs playing back from RAM. The HD just spin's up to fill the cache and then shut's off. Since Slimserver does not do this, it would need the OS on the NSLU to cache transparently. -- oreillymj ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oreillymj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=699 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31850 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
