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Hi!

> >Disks were never the relevant topic. Basically, those systems
> >just worked. Yes, they need a little hand-holding, but not because
> >of the disks.

> Well that may be, but why risk having a hard drive go out? Flash memory 
> most definatley outlasts traditional hard drives.

See the discussioon nanog about this, a few days ago.

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/

The problem with flash is that has its part of wear and tear as well.
It's not easy to do a real read-only setup. If you don't, some
part of the flash do will wear out. Flash mem do has a finite number
of possible writes.

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