Chief Delphi - Hard Drive shock protection

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Originally Posted by BrianBSL

Flash is definitely the way to go - if you have a 512 meg usb flash and a motherboard that supports booting from it, you should be able to get linux running on that. As far as for windows, you would need at least a gig assuming a very small page file. I would avoid using a hard drive as much as possible in this situation.

Also, depending on your cost limit and the performance you need, you might want to consider an embedded system like a gumstix unit.

Agreed - and SCSI drives are built to much higher standards as they are usually run 24-7-365 unlike most IDE drives, and need to be reliable in the enterprise environment (and you don't have to tell me about how you run your pc's IDE drives that often, because they will fail - I've had my share of failed ide drives from various mfg's).

OK... You CAN make a windows live cd, as I have one in my computer repair kit, therefore it stands to reason that you can make a windows live flash drive. as for the gig of storage needed,right now the CD is about 530mb, but that is with a a whole crapload of drivers (for universal detection) and programs such as Spybot S&D and Adaware, along with alot of other utilities. I could probably get the file size down to 1-200mb. Also, converting an impact into circular movement is most definitely better for a hard drive than the original impact. I've only had one harddrive quit on me, and that was when I dropped it from to top of my staircase (don't ask).