Ed W wrote: > I worried a lot about the same, in the end I went for a small laptop > drive for "safety" (it's inaudible) > > However, this came up on slashdot recently and if you search around the > logic seems to be that: > > - Flash rewrites quite a few times > - The good stuff has wear levelling so that most roughly speaking the > whole thing should work until it suddenly all fails > - Given a big enough drive with a fair bit of free space then you should > find it hard to wear it out in less than quite a few years even if you > are hitting it quite hard (probably multiples of this). Simply do the > maths to get the rough life > > So basically it seems that given a large enough flash drive with decent > wear levelling the lifetime should be completely ample... > > ...Thats the theory anyway. > > I feel quite bullish about the whole thing, but I think I would avoid > the *really* discounted cheapo flash drives since they may not have the > correct wear levelling. Decent brand names should be fine though (and > you can google for details on their specs)
I've had CF units fail in service, but it's true that reliability is increasing, especially as they get bigger. I would recommend going with the largest CF you can afford. -Stephen- _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
