[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Mon Mar 3 02:43:06 UTC 2008
On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:45 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> Brian Wood 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.
>
> That's my experience, too. In a previous job we had industrial
> touchscreen PCs that ran Windows 95 off of CompactFlash. We had
> dozens
> of these things in the field and disk failures were pretty rare, much
> rarer than other hardware failures. Anecdotes don't settle the
> matter,
> of course, but if someone's considering this kind of setup I'd say go
> for it.
As long as you have an image stored someplace safe,and can stand a
little downtime in the event of a failure, what do you have to lose?
>
> We never experienced any card compatibility issues, either. We were
> mostly using SanDisk cards.
A long time ago this was a problem, but not in the last 5 - 7 years
IMHO.
beww
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