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

[Steve Hodge]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:

> I completely forgot about the
> write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with
> the IDE adaptor and the like.


You won't have any problems with the adapter. There are no drivers - it's
just a plug and socket really. I've got a 32MB CF card as my boot partition
and I haven't had any problems in a year or so of use (not that I reboot
much).


>  I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western
> Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.


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.

And it's quieter, uses less power, and generates less heat. The only thing
that would be better (IMHO) would be to network boot and have no local
storage at all.

Cheers,
Steve
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20080303/d273c6f4/attachment.htm