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. > 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? Best regards,