RE: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-07 Thread Gayn Winters
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malcolm Fitzgerald Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:28 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive On 07/04/2006, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gayn Winters wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Malcolm Fitzgerald [ ... ] http://www.crucial.com/kb/answer.asp?qid=4088 Where they rate their own flash at 1,000,000 read/write cycles. The typical flash drive used to be rated for about 10,000 writes, but the better vendors do

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
orange_ wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... What would be the most suitable - something like FreeSBIE? That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be operated in

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 07/04/2006, at 12:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: orange_ wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... What would be the most suitable - something like FreeSBIE? That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread wc_fbsd
At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should be operated in read-only mode most of the time? I've

Re: Which BSD - Flash Drive

2006-04-06 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 07/04/2006, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:40 PM 4/6/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I would like to run a BSD distribution off a 1GB USB Flash drive... That's possible. You do understand that flash drives only have very limited # of write cycles before they fail, and should