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   Rick Jones to fps@idiom.com   
   Re: hard drive @ 30,000ft   
   12 Jun 06 17:08:06   
   
   From: rick.jones2@hp.com   
      
   (null)  wrote:   
   > How big does it have to be?  Apacer makes flash-based IDE hard drive   
   > equivalents up to 32 GB.  They're not cheap, but anything at 30 kft   
   > won't be anyway.   
      
   Are they ECC?  I don't think you want to rely on non-ECC memory at   
   that altitude - cosmic rays and the like being what they are, and my   
   recollection of issues years ago with the-large 1MB parity caches on   
   CPUs in machines in Denver...   
      
   rick jones   
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