On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:48:11 -0500, Aaron wrote: >................... SNIP > >Is anyone using solid state drives yet? > CF is effectively IDE. Witness (a firewall here): # disklabel wd0 # Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 1000881 # /dev/rwd0c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: SanDisk SDCFB-51 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 16 sectors/cylinder: 1008 cylinders: 993 total sectors: 1000944 rpm: 3600 8>< snip!
But I also have a customer using a flash based drive that looks like a 3.5" IDE job. It cost heaps but she loves the speed of random access and I love the cool quiet(er) machine. In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod.
