Re: Orbiting Datahavens

[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, jim bell wrote:
> At 06:32 PM 8/17/96 -0500, snow wrote:
> >     It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an
> >oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch.
> Hard drives don't work in a vacuum, at least conventional ones don't.  (And 
> I'm not aware of any hard drives which are designed to be permanently 
> pressurized against a hard vacuum, either...)

     I'll rephrase that then. It is a real bitch to swap out defective hardware
on a satellite. 

     I don't know much about sats, and I realize that most of them are built 
to specs that are insane compared to anything that runs dirtside, but (and I 
am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong) most sats aren't expected 
to deal with the wide range of tasks that your average network server deals 
with, nor do they have anywhere NEAR the memory capacities that we are talking 
about. 

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com