Hi Richard, I was talking about write speeds, not about CF card lifespan. And yes, of course it also depends on what people are going to push into the DB. I wouldn't set up a CVS server on a CF card myself, just because in general those cards are still quite slow, the affordable ones at least.
Bill On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 07:05 -0700, Richard Gooch wrote: > Bill Maas writes: > > It depends on the application you have in mind. For a router, the CF > > is perfect, for a DB backend server it most likely > > isn't. Maintaining a swap partition is also not a viable option with > > a CF card. > > This isn't actually true. Even the older CF cards have "good enough" > wear levelling. I've got a mail server that's nearly 4 years old. It > runs off of CF. It hasn't missed a beat. By the time it dies I'll > probably be able to buy a new CF card with 100x the capacity, a better > wear-levelling algorith, more bandwidth and it will cost peanuts. > > Why do people still believe this FUD? > > Regards, > > Richard.... > > -- "There is nothing to worry about" - unknown _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
