From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 10:14:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9BE16A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8880E43D31 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:14:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.6p3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hBEIDdCD026317; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:13:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20031212151310.GA81432@apotheosis.org.za> References: <20031212084643.F10569@zoraida.natserv.net> <20031212151310.GA81432@apotheosis.org.za> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:12:00 +0100 To: Matthew West From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CF cards wear out? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 18:14:02 -0000 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, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. GCS/IT d+(-) s:+(++)>: a C++(+++)$ UMBSHI++++$ P+>++ L+ !E-(---) W+++(--) N+ !w--- O- M++ V PS++(+++) PE- Y+(++) PGP>+++ t+(+++) 5++(+++) X++(+++) R+(+++) tv+(+++) b+(++++) DI+(++++) D+(++) G+(++++) e++>++++ h--- r---(+++)* z(+++)