On 4/12/11 11:44 AM, M. Moore wrote: > I could be wrong, but I thought the solid state devices were good for a > million writes.
There are vendors who will sell you a card with a capacity of a million write cycles suhc a product tends to have rather more cells then they expose... A more common number for a consumer card flash chip is 10,000, and as the density gets higher (e.g. the process gets smaller) that number drops. I'd got dual channel mlc cards of the 8 and 16GB size that have been live like 2.5 years in active servers... http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=174&SpNo=-99&LangNo=0 http://www.pqi.com.tw/product2.asp?oid=21&cate1=21&proid=384 > -Mike > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Ed Flecko" <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 14:34 > Subject: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash? > To: <[email protected]> > > Hi folks, > When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I > see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot > of writing before failing. > > 1.) Is that true? How much is "a lot" of writing? (My 4501 is for my > tiny, home network) > > 2.) How do you set up an OS (either OBSD or FBSD) to NOT write to a CF??? > > 3.) If you set it up to not write to your CF, how does your Soekris > manage to create log files??? > > Thank you, > Ed > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
