Re: flash replacing hard disks?

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:26:51 -0500, "Del Cecchi" <dcecchi.nospam@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>"Keith R. Williams" <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:MPG.1dac6b7df1335254989bf5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>snip
>>
>> "Click of Death" was a Zip drive failure mode, wasn't it? IMO they
>> were
>> useless without being unreliable.
>>
>> Laptop drives seem to be pretty robust, at least when not in operation.
>> OTOH,
>> if flash were free it would be nice, yes. The write cycle limitation
>> worries
>> me in this application though.
>>
>> --
>> Keith
>
>I heard it with respect to thinkpad drives. And it certainly describes
>the way the drive in my t23 died.

Isn't that a horrible noise - fair brings me out in a cold sweat. With a
Desktar we had, it was more like a (multiple) clunk during POST - it never
actually failed and SMART diags said "healthy drive" but I got that sucker
out of there.

--
Rgds, George Macdonald
.

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