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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sam Logen</b> <<a href="mailto:starz909@yahoo.com">starz909@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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> David Whyte wrote:<br>> > Hey All,<br>> ><br>> > Just won a new Aopen mini PC on eBay but will need<br>> to add a harddrive<br>> > and RAM. The box supports IDE HDDs, but I was<br>> thinking of going the<br>
> > silent solution and getting a IDE - CF adaptor and<br>> a CF card since<br>> > this will be a FE only machine (or if I do add as<br>> a BE it will record<br>> > to the master BE over an NFS mount).<br>
> ><br>> > Is there anything I should know about CF cards?<br>> Are there any type<br>> > that I should get which is quicker than the other.<br>> Will a CF card be<br>> > much quicker or the same as an IDE HDD for boot<br>
> up?<br>> ><br>> > Regards,<br>> > Whytey<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>> > <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
> ><br>><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>> ><br>> Get a card that supports DMA. My first experience<br>
> with trying this was<br>> with a very basic IDE to CF adapter that didn't<br>> support this, and the<br>> drive swapped to PIO mode and caused so may IO<br>> errors I couldn't get a<br>> base system to boot cleanly.<br>
><br>> After looking around it seems most CF cards are<br>> slower than HDDs,<br>> although they take up next to no space, produce<br>> almost no heat and use<br>> very little power..<br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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><br><br>And if you are not already aware, flash media can only<br>accept a limited amount of writes (about 100,000 or<br>so), but they can accept an infinite amount of reads.<br>So I'd still recommend a small hard disk to run a swap<br>
partition and any folders that may be written to<br>frequently.<br><br>Oh, and another thing, unless you have another plan<br>for the formatting of the flash, don't use a journaled<br>filesystem, since that also accumulates writes, so<br>
I've been told.<br><br>Good luck,<br>Sam<br><br><br><br> ____________________________________________________________________________________<br>Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page.<br><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs">http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs</a><br>
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<div>Wouldn't this all be negated if this is to be used as a frontend only? At that point, what needs to be written after the base OS is installed? Logs could easily be forwarded and written to a remote server. Aside from that, I can't think of anything off the top of my head that should need write access.</div>
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<div>Of course, he hasn't told us what the ultimate use of this pc will be either. :)<br> </div>