Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 21:16:57 +0000 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] solid state disk
I looked at using PCMCIA flash drives as in place of removable hard disks as removable media some time back. I was using SyQuest 88Mb SCSI drives, which are no longer produced and it was hard to find internally mountable removable SCSI devices. Size wasn't a big issue, as it was for a system running OS-9 (a real time system, not to be confused with MacOS 9) which needs about 20Mb for a full development system... I think the show stopper for the flash option was the limited number of rewrites that each block could take. I think it was in the hundreds, or at best thousands, which might be OK for a seldom modified root partition, but not so good for inodes and super blocks, or worse still systems which use bitmap sectors for managing free space... Anyone know that the specs are like on this for current devices, and how it compares, say, to re-writeable CD media? Regards, DigbyT Tom Dixon: > > Is anyone running solid state disk on a libretto? > > With Sandisk coming out with a 1Gig compactflash card next year, and > compactflash -> 2.5 IDE Adapters available, it seems like I could run with no > moving parts. Sounds tempting. Then I could keep the libby in the truck and > it wouldn't mind the cold in Colorado ( i think ). > > While 1G is not a lot of disk space, being conservative (running UNIX...) I > could live with that. > > Plus, the bonus of it being faster wouldn't hurt. > > -tom -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
