[HECnet] No connectivity to arsgea 4

[Mark Wickens]

Raspberry Pi is fine, it was the SD card that had failed.
However, the difference between the original Pi and the 2B in terms of boot
speed is quite noticeable!

Regards, Mark.

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 18:57, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On 1/22/21 1:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> > SSDs can fail, though, especially at modern densities.  I recently saw a
> 256 GB microSD card; that boggles the mind.  I wonder what the life
> expectancy of one of those is.
>
>    Not long.  They get away with it because they're primarily intended
> for the consumer market, and with the throwaway mentality that salesmen
> have cultivated, combined with today's short attention spans, nobody
> even seems to care when they fail.
>
> > Modern politically correct solder can be problematic too.  "Lead free"
> processes are less reliable than real soldering.  For years, maybe still,
> lead free solder was not acceptable for space applications.  Perhaps that
> has been cured by now, I don't know and don't care.  (I was told quite
> directly by a professional "if you are required to use lead free solder, do
> so.  If you aren't required, avoid it.")
>
>    I myself do care, as I do commercial design and manufacturing.  Lead
> free solder is still awful by every meaningful metric, and that
> situation is not likely to improve.  Fortunately, "lead free", when
> applied to an assembly, only means "contains less than some percentage
> of lead by weight", so most PCBs can actually be manufactured with
> lead-bearing solder.  I assemble mine using lead-bearing solder.
>
>    Remember the Toyota Prius accelerator failure that killed all those
> people?  That was caused by lead-free solder.
>
> > I do like SSDs.  My home firewall, DECnet router, and Subversion server
> is a fanless (heat sink cooled industrial type) SSD based PC running
> Linux.  Unlike its plain consumer PC predecessor, it has no objections at
> all to spending its life in a dusty basement.
>
>    I've found SSDs to be a lot less reliable than spinning disks.  I
> still use them for reasons of speed and power consumption, but I do more
> frequent backups.
>
>               -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>


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