This may be more than you want cost-wise, but you can pick up smaller SSDs for just barely under $50: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148579&nm_mc=OTC-FroogleNEW&cm_mmc=OTC-FroogleNEW-_-Solid+State+Disk-_-Crucial-_-20148579
that's obviously way more space than you need, and much more expensive than your average CF card. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Jim Pingle <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/6/2012 2:24 PM, David Burgess wrote: > > My CF card is getting to be a few years old now, and I really should > > have a backup ready to go. I really hate slow IO in any machine, and I > > don't like long drawn-out firmware updates (especially since I'm usually > > up at 4 am doing them). > > > > With that in mind, can anybody recommend a CF card with good write speed > > and good reliability? I'm not interested in paying $100, as this is an > > itx machine and for that money I could just jump to an SSD. My favourite > > vendor has a good selection of Kingston, but I really don't like that > > brand for anything other than RAM. > > > > If anybody knows of something decent under $40, I welcome your > > recommendation. Thanks. > > I have a Sandisk 200x (30MB/s) 4gb card here that is very speedy. > However, it has an annoying quirk with the disk layout that makes > FreeBSD spit an error message on every rw mount. Annoying log spam, but > it's still speedy. May just be this model, not sure. > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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