[ale] CF card as disk drive

[David Tomaschik]

Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of the high reliability offered by
solid state media?

David


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Chris -
>
> Get one of the MicroDrive-style CF cards and stop worrying about write
> cycles.
>
> - Jeff
>
> Chris Woodfield wrote:
>> I'm rebuilding ye olde firewall server, and I'd like to go with a
>> CF-based disk this time. I have a working CF-to-IDE adapter already,
>> but I'd like to know if there's any info out there as to which
>> brands/models of CF cards have the longest write cycle ratings. I'll
>> be using the CF card as a normal drive, but I plan on the following
>> system adjustments to limit disk writes:
>>
>> - No swapfile
>> - syslogd/klogd configured to log to remote server
>> - ramdisk for other often-updated files (dhcp.leases, /var/lock/, any
>> others to suggest?)
>>
>> What brand/model flash would one suggest if the goal is to have the
>> highest write cycle capacity?
>>
>> -C
>>
>>
>>
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