On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:49:35 +0000, Peter Lister wrote:
>There are obvious advantages like not relying on relatively unreliable
>electromechanical things like hard disks (not just paranoia - we have 16
>nodes in the US office which have been running largely uninterrupted for
>1 year - and a disk failed last week). Fast booting is a big plus;
Definitely not paranoia.. out of the last 5 HD's I have bought 2 failed.. One 6 months
later
and one 24 hours later... All different vendors different Mfgs of course I buy what
ever is
cheapest on pricewatch so I guess I get what I pay for.
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Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
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Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
