Good call -- write cycle life of 10^3-10^4 are probably not much of an issue in a digital camera, but would probably die quickly if used as a HD replacement. Linux would have to run w/o swap. CFII+ harddrive? You're talking about a microdrive, right? While those are getting much more affordable, a laptop drive is still cheaper.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Critchfield Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Compact PCI platform On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:12, Jay Milk wrote: > Since this is related... Does anyone have Asterisk working on a > Flash-drive? I was considering this as an alternative to having a > harddrive in my machine, thus keeping down noise and heat. A 512MB CF > card should be plenty to get Linux and * booted, another 64 or 128MB > card should be plenty for voice-mail and such. Any takers? I'm sure it has been covered, but flash would not make a good long term voicemail option. Flash has a specific amount of times blocks can be written to. My company has some hand held recorders in the hands of doctors doing patient dictation, they are starting to see memory failures after a little more than a year or so of use. This is due partly because of the size of files. Each file will span multiple blocks, and therefore increases the likelyhood you will come back and write on the block again soon. A large card would stave off the problem by allowing the least used method a bit longer before reusing the blocks again. All in all, you would probably be better off for storing the voicemail in a CFII+ hard drive that doesn't add much to power, weight, heat, nor noise all while reducing the chance of burning through the flash. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
