Hello Douglas and *, Am 2008-04-29 22:35:15, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > You may wish to consider an industrial-quality compact flash drive. The > CF adapter plugs in just like a drive and the I-Q CF cards come with a 5 > year warranty and testing by OpenBSD-types (who do a lot of embedded > devices using CF cards) shows that for many uses they are very reliable.
I am using SanDisk Extereme III and bought recently the Extreme IV.
Both in the 4 and 8 GByte variant. I have put my whole OS on it and it
seems to be faster then my older PATA drive, which should do arround
52 MByte/sec.
/tmp is in tmpfs.
/var is put into tmpfs too, but stored on a second CF card (1 GByte
SanDisk Ultra IV) to be uncompressed on boot-up and compressed on
shutdown.
Some directories like /var/cache/apt/archives are excluded and the files
from /var/log are not numbered but dated which make it easy to back it
up to another medium whithout lossing the sequence. Ok, if you have
place on a fileserver or something like this, you can use "syslog-ng" to
log over your network.
But realy, CF-Cards are the real solution for silent and cold computers.
Oh yes, since my new combinated NFS-, Courier- and PostgreSQL-Server is
using fiveteen 300 GByte SCSI-Drives for datas, I have put the OS on a
CF-Card too and the whole Server is not in my room... (it is loud like
an airport even with special silent cases)
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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