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You missed the point the author really complains about: soldered in memory chips create a single point of failure. What you quoted needs to be seen in the cont
by crabbone 2mo ago
You missed the point the author really complains about: soldered in memory chips create a single point of failure.
What you quoted needs to be seen in the context of what author calls "increasing media demands". I.e. the author believes that while the way the system is configured might be OK today, it won't be OK in the future.
- Ekaros 2mo agoMemory chips failing to me sounds like extremely bizarre fear. Memory has been extremely reliable for long time now. It is much more likely any other component on same mainboard failing than memory.
- crabbone 2mo agoIt still makes it a single point of failure...
- Ekaros 2mo agoEvery single component in NAS which breaking stops operation is single point of failure. So should those all too be socket mounted?
- crabbone 2mo agoThat's a tautology... But, maybe if I try to salvage what you were trying to say: while failures are a fact of life, higher-quality products will try to minimize and mitigate more of them. Making more components replaceable, is the direction to improve resiliency, and therefore quality of the system. It could be impossible or highly impractical to make everything socket-mounted, but making more components socket-mounted is certainly a way to make a better product.