Tom Brown wrote:
CF Fails, i can re inject it into a new CF card and away I go. yes if the HD fails ive lost the database, but its a monitoring box, toss a new one in , reboot the box and away we go.
but as either cant operate without the other you have just doubled your chances of an outage rather than reduced it
You have lowered the MTTR but gained a higher MTTF and that was maybee your goal?
KISS principle rules, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle.