On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:56:32 +0000 (UTC), Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: > >On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote: > >>> On a closely related note, has anyone built a normal (not embedded) >>> system on SSD? >> >> I've been running Asterisk on a 20GB SSD drive for a while now. >> > >What mft/model? > >I was recently quoted a 4GB Compact Flash drive as part of a small system >we plan to run asterisk on. Loosely tieing this to the recent thread on >swap configuration, assuming a small number of SIP phones and no PSTN >hardware, we were planning on 1GB of RAM to avoid swapping to this CF >device. > >I know that CF cards have a limited number of writes before frying. If we >keep it from using swap am I really only concerned about voicemail and >logs?
That will work fine if you select an Asterisk distro intended for such applications, like Astlinux or Askozia. Both of these systems manage disk acces is such a way that they maximize the lifespan of flash media. Both are in fact intended to boot & run from much small flash devices that are commonplace these days. They harken back to a time when 1 GB was huge and expensive CF card. There are many Astlinux systems out there that have been running on 64 MB CF cards in IDE adapters, and storing their configs & VM to either a separate partition in the CF or a USB stick. I wrote this up back in Jan 2006. http://www.mgraves.org/voip/?p=1092 Michael Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://www.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[email protected] skype mjgraves Twitter mjgraves _______________________________________________ -- 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
