No, we are not. It's not a matter of slow vs. fast. It's a matter of resilient vs. fragile.
I prefer to have a resilient system in most cases, regardless of the form factor. If I was preparing an image for an embedded system, I'd go speed all the way down, within the limits of pragmatism.
I work in high performance computing. Speed is what we need, what we engineer for. However, resiliency is an equally important and valid concern. So, if I'm losing 5 seconds once a month (or once three-four months in case of desktop systems), that's a perfectly acceptable trade-off for a resilient system.
When a system tests its memory for 30 seconds, and initializes the motherboard and other devices for 3 minutes, losing 3 seconds on a bloody RAID speed test doesn't matter.
Oh, one of the latest servers we have exposes its management interface as a LAN port over USB, as I found out yesterday.
I prefer to have a resilient system in most cases, regardless of the form factor. If I was preparing an image for an embedded system, I'd go speed all the way down, within the limits of pragmatism.
I work in high performance computing. Speed is what we need, what we engineer for. However, resiliency is an equally important and valid concern. So, if I'm losing 5 seconds once a month (or once three-four months in case of desktop systems), that's a perfectly acceptable trade-off for a resilient system.
When a system tests its memory for 30 seconds, and initializes the motherboard and other devices for 3 minutes, losing 3 seconds on a bloody RAID speed test doesn't matter.
Oh, one of the latest servers we have exposes its management interface as a LAN port over USB, as I found out yesterday.
So, yeah.