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>"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Dear all,
>> I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part
>> of
>> the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage.
>> I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycles
>> before
>> the cells wear out and therefore I'm looking for ways to reduce the number
>> of
>> write cycles.
>> First of all, it is obvious, that swap partitions have to be avoided and
>> replaced by real ram, so currently I'm planing for 2 maybe even 4 GB of
>> memory.
>The kernel is less than perfect in terms of memory management and a knoppix
>user noticed that creating a ramdrive for a swap partition actually
>increased speed. (The problem might not actually be in the kernel, but
>rather in programs requesting that memmory be placed in swap, and running
>slower if swap is not available, but it has the same end effect).
Good hint, thanks for that one.
>Rather than using flash memory consider using SSDs which are dram-based,
>battery backed-up drives.
>I'm not sure of the cost comparison to similar sized flash drives.
A 4GB CF with ~10MB/s read write speed sets you back around 230 Euro, the
cheapest SSD I found was from Rocket Drive, where the 2 GB variant is 1600
Euro and that is not a standard ATA solution, so probably no Linux driver.
If someone has a cheaper SSD solution, I'm all ears
>What is nice about flash though is that compact flash uses IDE. So you can
>just buy a simple ide to Compact flash adapter to plug your CF cards into.
That's the plan ;)
Thanks and regards,
Jonathan
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