[CentOS] Via Eden
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Fri Mar 23 11:42:10 UTC 2007
chrism at imntv.com wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
>>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> chrism at imntv.com wrote:
>>>>> I've been thinking of using one of these for a home theater head unit.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.logicsupply.com/product_info.php/products_id/696
>>>>>
>>>>> Was planning to configure it with the following:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dual 4gig compact flash cards w/IDE adapters (about $50/each)
>>>>> Re-use old 3Ware dual port IDE card to make this a bootable RAID0
>>>>> array (for speed)
>>>>
>>>> Track down ipcop. It's a firewall package, and I believe there is
>>>> advice about using CF as disk.
>>>>
>>>> I think there's a limit to how many times you can write to it, and
>>>> it might bite you.
>>>>
>>>> I prefer the idea of a notepad drive; faster and more duable.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Limited writes isn't an issue here since the only writes to the media
>>> will be the OS, applications, and occasional updates. The media store
>>
>> Directories? Where are /var/{tmp,run,lock} /tmp?
>>
>>> is on a separate machine. /var and swap are on the notebook drive.
>>> The idea is to use the flash so that it wakes up relatively quickly,
>>> makes little noise, and generates little heat.
>>
>
> Can you not read? The answer was in the message you quoted.
I can read. I am skeptical.
>
>
>> Don't assume, do your research.
>>
>> btw Don't assume that flash is faster than a real drive.
>>
>>>
>
> Now you're just being argumentative. Are we done here or did you have
> some additional irrelevant comments to make?
Flash is notably slow. Since writing, I have done some research. If you
want good performance (60 Mbytes/sec), it's expensive. You still have a
limited number of writes.
Don't use consumer-grade flash for this if reliability and performance
are important. Industrial grade is good. It also costs.
I heard, on another list, of someone who inserted a flash drive and
exceeded the writes limit on first use. It was fairly big then, 4
Gbytes, and had a FAT filesystem.
>
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>
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John
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