Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
It might just be easier to get a small 1u rackmount and put it on that. The hardest part will be getting the system to not hammer the CF to death with writes. Most of the embedded systems hold writes to a minimum, and do them in batches so the CF lasts longer.
Thats a good point, I should look into the constant write problem. I was thinking in an embedded platform for its costs, low space, low power consumption and disk less operation.
I suspect that most folks would probably wind up using the system as a paperweight long before the CF has degraded unless you were doing extremely write intensive tasks with it. The newer flash parts claim to have an "endurance" of millions of writes and and MTBF of millions of hours. Granted, I wouldn't use them to store index files for my usenet feed, but that's a LOT of writes. :) And given how the prices of CF are dropping like a stone, you could always pre-emptively rotate new parts in and use old ones in your digital camera/etc.
Cheers,