>> 1. This is bad idea - use flash cards for swap or more modern os (like all >> windows). I had experience with 16 TF cards, which die after 1 year (rewrite >> limit). All 16 cards work in non-overloaded machines.
> My CF card is used as "HDD" 3rd month - we'll see in 9 months will it survive. > I doubt it "must die" after a year of use - consider all that photocameras > that use CF cards; their owners probably had to buy new CF cards each year. this obviously doesn't depend on time, but on the way you use it, in particular how much you write to it. also there is no such thing as 'CF card'. CF was introduced 1994. even though DOS is still the same as in 1994, CF cards have *hugely* changed. early generations had no wear leveling; error correctionwas seriously bad, and you had manufacturers cutting corners. they only had to survive in cameras for a couple of overwrite, not 1000's of overwrites. and if a sector goes unreadable, you lose a single photo. so what's the problem? SSD's - which are based on the same flash storage chips - were always much more robust against errors, because losing data is BAD. that said, a modern CF card might survive a year as swap device. I still wouldn't do it. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
