From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 07:55:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7C3106564A for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thciobanu@nth.ro) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A4D8FC0C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 07:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy1 with SMTP id 1so648967ewy.13 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:55:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.102.197 with SMTP id h5mr680997ebo.113.1307604690143; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:31:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.17.7 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:31:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [91.199.104.3] In-Reply-To: <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org> References: <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <4DF049AC.3050403@radel.com> <20110609052113.GA4291@thought.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 10:31:30 +0300 Message-ID: From: Theodor Ciobanu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: Long Day's Journey into X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:55:15 -0000 On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:21:13 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: > I figured, hey, solid- state will work forever and 20 years, > whichever comes first. ... Unfortunately, from experience, no moving parts (if that's what you mean my solid-state; if not, disregard the rest of this mail :) ) doesn't equal non-failure. Just a bit less likely to fail. PSUs still die on you, capacitors still "blow up", microchips still get fried if not properly cooled, flash memory "wears out" etc. I've had all sorts of switches die on me in strage ways, a couple of them the same way it happened to you (they suddenly refused to switch packets). Currently I'm in the middle of replacing three ProCurve switches (oldest one bought within a year) because the NVRAM became read-only all of a sudden. I really hope the service guys will be able to tell me what happened (if it was an environment issue, firmware bug, a bad batch of chips...). Regards, -- Theo