On Fri, 09 February 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
What is the MTBF for a microdrive exposed to a carrier-grade environment?
and is it as good as when exposed to a reasonable environment?
True, as you know, a "carrier-grade environment" can be pretty bad. I might as well ask, What is the MTBF after being exposed to the UPS shipping environment. Historically, the reason why I've tried to keep rotating storage media out of my critical POP equipment it requires too much maintenance. I'm old enough to remember routers with evil boot floppies. For non-critical stuff, like billing and accounting servers, rotating media is fine (speaking as a network geek, not an accounting geek). But maybe these microdrives are tough enough. I'm open to changing my mind.
I think UPS is going to be hard pressed to break this puppy. They are claiming 1500G non-operating shock limit, 3-5G non-operating vibration limit. jerry
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jerry Scharf wrote:
I think UPS is going to be hard pressed to break this puppy. They are claiming 1500G non-operating shock limit, 3-5G non-operating vibration limit.
Don't challenge them like that. It's like saying you've come up with "backhoe-proof" cable. ;-)
On 9 Feb 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
True, as you know, a "carrier-grade environment" can be pretty bad. I might as well ask, What is the MTBF after being exposed to the UPS shipping environment.
Historically, the reason why I've tried to keep rotating storage media out of my critical POP equipment it requires too much maintenance. I'm old enough to remember routers with evil boot floppies.
I may not be that old, but I remember boot floppies in Xyplex gear. And yes, they were quite evil. -- Joseph W. Shaw Sr. Network Security Specialist for Big Company not to be named. I have public opinions, and they have public relations.
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