Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-11 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Ryan Corder wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM +0700, Soekris Maillist wrote: > | Anyone know where to buy these? > | > | The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is > | extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. > > If you do find anything that small, please let AL

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-08 Thread RB
> It just seems silly to me to waste a 1 or 2 GB CF on an image that > is about 25MB. This goes back to Economics 101. If you have two drives that are virtually identical in every way except for capacity, you'd be a fool to purchase the lower-capacity drive. Unless you're contractually constrain

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-08 Thread Ryan Corder
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 11:02:38AM +0200, Bill Maas wrote: | By the way, assuming that you are going to load the image into RAM and | run everything from there: you don't need to use a Sandisk or any other | expensive state-of-the-art industrial-grade brand CF card. Read speed is | generally not a

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-06 Thread Soekris Maillist
My CF card will be mounted read only, so no writing at all will be going on. The reason I wanted SanDisk is cause everyone seems to be having success with these. Maybe I will look into some other brands. Kingston is very well represented here in Thailand, but I think, I remember some thread about t

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-06 Thread Bill Maas
Hi, 256 MB generally appears to be the smallest size available for retail, see for example: http://www.flash-memory-store.com/256mb-compact-flash.html But here they even sell 32 MB: http://www.memorysuppliers.com/sandisk1.html?gclid=CN-CwMvmxpUCFRKS1QodhDG0iw [I just can't help wondering where

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-05 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-09-05, Ryan Corder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM +0700, Soekris Maillist wrote: >| Anyone know where to buy these? >| >| The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is >| extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. > > If you do find anyt

Re: [Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-05 Thread Ryan Corder
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:33:58AM +0700, Soekris Maillist wrote: | Anyone know where to buy these? | | The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is | extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. If you do find anything that small, please let ALL of us know. The smallest I've

[Soekris] SanDisk 64 MB Compact Flash Cards

2008-09-05 Thread Soekris Maillist
Anyone know where to buy these? The smallest ones I can find here in Thailand seems to be 2 GB, which is extreme overkill for a 16 MB image. Thanks in advance. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailma