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

[Sam Logen]

--- Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

> My personal experience using flash devices (with an
> NSLU2) has shown  
> that the "conventional wisdom" that it will fail
> after a short period  
> of heavy writes is incorrect. I have been running a
> complete Debian  
> system from a flash device for close to a year now.
> I guess the wear  
> leveling is working.

Every time I've read about it, with wear leveling,
people have reported failing cf cards after about two
years of use.  I can't point to articles specifically,
but a general search should get some accurate info. 
The response generally is to copy the data or a backup
of it to a replacement unit, and swap it in, simple as
that.

Sam


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