<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Steve Hodge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David Whyte <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "> I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western</span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.</blockquote><div><br>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.</div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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. ;)</div></div><br></body></html>