On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:31:30AM +0300, Theodor Ciobanu wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:31:30 +0300
> From: Theodor Ciobanu <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:13 -0700
> Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I figured, hey, solid- state will work forever and 20 years,
> > whichever comes first. ...
>
> Unfortunately, from experience, no moving parts (if that's what you
> mean my solid-state; if not, disregard the rest of this mail :) )
> doesn't equal non-failure. Just a bit less likely to fail. PSUs still
> die on you, capacitors still "blow up", microchips still get fried if
> not properly cooled, flash memory "wears out" etc.
>
> I've had all sorts of switches die on me in strage ways, a couple of
> them the same way it happened to you (they suddenly refused to switch
> packets).
>
> Currently I'm in the middle of replacing three ProCurve switches
> (oldest one bought within a year) because the NVRAM became read-only
> all of a sudden. I really hope the service guys will be able to tell me
> what happened (if it was an environment issue, firmware bug, a bad
> batch of chips...).
Jeez! I'm going to save this mail in my ~/warning.info file.
[They say you can't learn from others' experiences, but in some
cases, like your note above, it is possible; thanks for your data
points.] If nothing ever wore out, where would our global
consumer-society be!
I'm planning on upgrading my harddrive in a year or so. I was
hoping for the SSD to be further along... . Maybe I'll shoot
for 2015.
Luck+ with your NVRAM problem. never heard of that one... .
gary
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Theo
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