Thoughts -> Re: classiccmp server

On Monday 04 October 2004 14:58, John Foust wrote: True, but those failure modes are much less common the a media failure or head crash. That brings me to another point, though -- if you had 2 seperate disks in the same enclosure, with no environmental isolation between them, you'd likely kill both disks with a head crash on either one. A head crash in a modern high-speed drive tends to throw a lot of pulverized platter and head bits around inside the disk, damaging the other platters that may not have been involved in the actual crash. So I think you'd need to isolate the sections really-small-bits-of-metal tight) seal; probably doable, but would take up more room that you're pretty low on already. That sure would make an interesting drive :) If it could be pulled off cheap enough, it would be well worth it, too. -- - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) "we are content if we can describe a multitude of other things in terms of... fundamental incomprehensibilities. science is an activity that takes place on the shore of an infinite sea of mystery." chet raymo, "doctor seuss and doctor einstein"