----- Original Message ----- From: Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 20, 2007 2:29 pm Subject: Re: help needed with laptop hdd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> On 2007/09/20 10:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive > for > > regular use anyway. > > This depends very much on what your regular use is. They're a lot > tougher than "common knowledge" would have you believe. > >From the flash that I've tested for a data logging project, the best I've seen was from M-Systems - now sandisk. http://www.sandisk.com/OEM/ProductCatalog(1335)-SSD_formerly_FFD_UATA_25.aspx Still not with write/erase longevity as a decent spinning drive. Now they(sandisk) have a new line for use in laptops: http://www.sandisk.com/OEM/ProductCatalog(1320)-SanDisk_SSD_UATA_5000_18.aspx http://www.sandisk.com/OEM/ProductCatalog(1321)-SanDisk_SSD_SATA_5000_25.aspx Seemingly difficult to find though.
