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 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. > >> Cheap 2.5" 20gig drive for swap and /var partitions > > A drive that small is likely slower than newer ones. > Which doesn't matter since it is only going to be used for /var and swap. Cheers,