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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2494)	9/14/1998 3:05:00 PM
From: jw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

zdnet.com OverClocking may be on the way out per: Intel. Regards, /jw Anyone: How do I address this to myself, Thanks,

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (2494)	9/14/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

>> A good lightning strike could not only render the whole disk useless but the whole box useless. I have seen every drive in a server be fried by one surge, more than once. Ah, yes, now I see where you're coming from. This is indisputably true. In fact, I just had lightening fry my server (though the mirrored disks survived, mercifully). In this respect I agree 100 percent. BUT I don't think that's what Dave is trying to protect against here. If it is, you're right. But I think we're talking at cross purposes. Also Dave and I were talking at cross purposes when he was talking about performance and I was talking about fault tolerance. As I believe you said at TAOTL, we agree on a lot more than it seems because the medium promotes misunderstanding. Still, if the thread will permit the philosophical aside, I think this is a healthy turn of events, because we have to express ourselves reasonably in writing here, and there's an indelible record of it. It's a partial return to the written exchanges of our past in which the ability to express one's thoughts clearly in writing was a prerequisite to educated communication. I think "partial" because we now have the luxury of more or less instant clarification. Nevertheless, it's a healthy development, and a great plus for the internet IMO. Take THAT, technophobes <g>. Regards, Spots