On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:06:09PM -0500, Steven Critchfield wrote: > 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.
A modern CF card has about 10,000 write cycles before it starts failing. Steve -- NetTek Ltd Phone/Fax +44-(0)20 7483 2455 SMS steve-epage (at) gbnet.net [body] gpg 1024D/468952DB 2001-09-19 _______________________________________________ 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
