Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:12:00 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CF cards wear out? Message-ID: <p06002005bc0258140a72@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20031212151310.GA81432@apotheosis.org.za> References: <20031212084643.F10569@zoraida.natserv.net> <20031212151310.GA81432@apotheosis.org.za>
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At 5:13 PM +0200 2003/12/12, Matthew West wrote:
> If you're going to be using a system like the Soekris boards and your
> project requires a media that you can do a lot of writes too, I would
> recommend something like IBM's Microdrives.
This defeats the whole purpose of using CF cards -- the fact that
the device has no "unreliable" rotating media.
If you put IBM/Fujitsu MicroDrives in there, you might as well
put a real hard drive in a real computer, since that will likely have
a longer lifespan than a tiny fragile little CFII MicroDrive.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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