On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:26:14 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive for >regular use anyway. Flash and super dense mag drives seem fine for use >if write/erase only happens occasionally (i.e. embedded/mp3 etc...) > >The next step:
The next step is to find some justification for your statement about longevity. I remember early nand tech that wore out in a few days or maybe hours. That isn't now. I have attempted to wear out an Apacer CF 512MB by doing a regular install of OpenBSD (no memfs, no mount ro) and then turning the most verbose logging possible for spamd with daily rotations. I then used it to run a firewall in front of a moderately busy mailserver that had hundreds of spamtrap addresses. After fourteen months I gave up and put the spamd stuff on the mailserver (simply to keep all the email process on one box) at the next OS update. I have about a dozen client sites for one company that store all their inventory data on CF at their branch firewalls on a similar CF. Updates daily from head office overwrite the data. No problems. I saw some info recently that showed that flash technology is now less likely to fail than a spinny disk. Wish I'd kept a link to it because I don't really have time to Google it ATM. Price is the killer on the basis of storage size but it is heading down fast. We already have one flash drive in a desktop PC and it is slick. For laptops the ruggedness is tops. R/ >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?
