Luke wrote:
If you are worry about power consumption or reliability when using
old computers I have some general tips for you:
1. Don't use a storage device that has spinning disks, instead use a
CF card, Zip Drive/Disk, etc.
http://www.cfide.co.uk/compact_flash_ide_adapters.shtml
To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing
hard drives with flash memory intriguing. When I first heard someone
talk about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot
down by people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when
you write to it. Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require
frequent write operations if it does any logging at all.
Has this limitation been overcome in recent years?
Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me.
Yes and No, The problem is still there but when your dealing with an 8MB
FreeBSD system (m0n0wall) all's you have to do is make a ram drive and
copy the system to it. Then the only time you access the Flash device is
at boot or when making changes to the config file, etc, this is how
m0n0wall does it.
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