[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[David Brodbeck]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Steve Hodge wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>  I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western
> Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.
>
> Couldn't you buy several CF cards for that? If you have to replace  
> the CF card every two years (which won't happen) you'd still be ahead.

Heck, you could buy two, and make a RAID 1 mirror.  If you used two  
different-sized cards, write-leveling would all but guarantee they  
wouldn't fail at the same time. ;)

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