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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>I don't know why you couldn't run it on a flash drive, I'm running<br>OpenSlug and a full-blown Debian off them.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The conventional wisdom is that a flash drive will wear out quickly<br>as it has a finite number of write cycles available. I take care to
<br>not swap to them and mount the filesystems with "noatime" and I have<br>yet to have a flash drive fail, but it's only been 6 months or so<br>since I moved from the small hard drives, so it's not really a fair
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<div>Yea i was thinking i didn't want to waste an IDE slot or something like that with just a small operating system. I do have an old laptop drive (40gig) that i have in a usb case, guess i could use that, or even a regular size harddrive in a usb interface case.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">"Noatime" might cause trouble with some applications as well, depends<br>on what you're doing.
<br><br>So we've moved from a discussion of 1 TB hard drives to small flash<br>drives :-)<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sincerely, <br><br>MacNean C. Tyrrell