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On 27 Nov 2008, at 16:37, Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> I think the last anecdote I read on this subject was written by |
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>> Trubox |
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>> (Truebox?) on the Openmoko-community list a month or two ago. They |
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>> sell |
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>> Aserisk systems to small business (in my area, as it happens) and I |
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>> would |
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>> imagine that typically the system sits in the corner of an office |
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>> and is |
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>> untouched for years at a time. I would imagine that have plenty of |
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>> installed |
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>> systems throughout the UK (otherwise they'd be going hungry). They |
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>> report a |
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>> very low failure rate, as did someone else on the MythTV-users list |
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>> who also |
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>> bases a commercial offering on flash-based hardware. |
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>> ... |
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> |
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> The catch, though, is that I'd guess commercial offerings of MythTV |
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> boxes like that would be updated infrequently and that the actual |
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> recording storage, and likely logs and other frequent write files, is |
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> done on a normal disk. |
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The "commercial offering" that I recall mentioned on the MythTV-users |
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list wasn't MythTV-related. The discussion of flash memory arose and a |
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poster mentioned his experiences using flash memory in his day job - I |
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think the employer did something like till systems, and I have this |
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idea that the poster said the flash cards were put under a reasonable |
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workload. |
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Stroller. |
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