[ale] Source for Inexpensive, Quiet, Low-Power, rackmount server?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

"mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

>On 10/16/2012 09:05 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>> I was unable to find definitive data on how these things fail at the
>> end of their life.  Also, if the unit is powered off, and it cannot
>> do it's data scrubbing, your data can fade away relatively quickly.
>> Probably not a problem with a server that's generally always on.
>
>Flash has a decent enough retention---a device that's powered off for a
>few weeks will work just fine.  My laptop with the SSD is off for
>months
>at a time, and I have no errors on it.
>
>Failure will manifest the same way as any other block device, with I/O
>errors at the block level.  Some SSDs attempt to abstract this away a
>little more than HDDs do, by moving data around the media more.
>However, once that stops being effective, you'll get either bad data
>reads or read errors.
>
>Of course, if you have a sane backup regimen, it doesn't really matter:
>you should always assume that all of your HDDs/SSDs are going to die
>all
>at the same time, always.  It is the only way to be safe, period.
>
>	--- Mike


I TOTALLY agree with your last statement.  However, I'd bet real money, if I had much of it, that 90% of all people and all companies don't meet the goal.  That includes me much of the time.  Hope I just didn't jynx all my data.

Ron



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