25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
10:02 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Back to a old query--will a Microdrive stand up to
months of
continuous 24x7 use? My impression was that they were useful only as
intermittent-use devices.
I've never stress-tested mine, but I've had it for eight years, three as
the primary hard drive in my daily workbox 5160. So far so good.
It seems that if flash was ready for primetime, the
server farm
operators would jump at the chance to employ them, given that power
consumption is a *big* expense for them (both for system power and
the HVAC that's needed).
They are, actually. Sun is now offering solid-state drives as an option
for their latest servers.
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