From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 15:16:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F66A1065680; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30938FC0C; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:16:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K300077JVKRFV30@l-daemon>; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:14:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K3000C0QVKQFZ00@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca>; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:14:51 -0600 (MDT) Received: from soralx ([24.87.3.133]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K3000751VKP7970@l-daemon>; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:14:50 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:13:46 -0700 From: soralx@cydem.org In-reply-to: <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119168@sbs2003.Webline.local> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080625071346.03709a9c@soralx> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119163@sbs2003.Webline.local> <073DF92AAE3443F79BA23004D60ED8AA@Webline.local> <50A3BEAB67F03F44A2A063D55FC14D37119168@sbs2003.Webline.local> Cc: alwin.roosen@webline.be, koitsu@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Would a Transcend USB Flash Module of 2GB work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:16:02 -0000 > The purpose of this is to build a very simple DNS server which is > controlled by some PHP command line scripting. It won't do much writing > at all since it loads all DNS information from a separate > database-server. Therefore I thought a very simple server without moving > parts like unreliable disks would be the perfect match. I could make a > copy of that dongle in case it ever breaks and be assured it would run > for years and years. Forgot to mention in my last email: if you need reliability, then don't use USB flash. I'm testing ZFS on the USB drives array, and a few days after I set it up, I've already seen a CRC error from ZFS -- that's data corruption (irrecoverable, needless to say). Even for a DNS server, USB flash is no good (unless all you use it for is bootstrap -- no writing or reading afterwards). [SorAlx] ridin' VS1400