On 27 Nov 2008, at 16:37, Joshua Murphy wrote:
...
I think the last anecdote I read on this subject was written by
Trubox
(Truebox?) on the Openmoko-community list a month or two ago. They
sell
Aserisk systems to small business (in my area, as it happens) and I
would
imagine that typically the system sits in the corner of an office
and is
untouched for years at a time. I would imagine that have plenty of
installed
systems throughout the UK (otherwise they'd be going hungry). They
report a
very low failure rate, as did someone else on the MythTV-users list
who also
bases a commercial offering on flash-based hardware.
...
The catch, though, is that I'd guess commercial offerings of MythTV
boxes like that would be updated infrequently and that the actual
recording storage, and likely logs and other frequent write files, is
done on a normal disk.
The "commercial offering" that I recall mentioned on the MythTV-users
list wasn't MythTV-related. The discussion of flash memory arose and a
poster mentioned his experiences using flash memory in his day job - I
think the employer did something like till systems, and I have this
idea that the poster said the flash cards were put under a reasonable
workload.
Stroller.
