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. > > Best regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list