>You'd be unhappy with the write cycle longevity of a flash drive for
The next step is to find some justification for your statement about
longevity.
I remember early nand tech that wore out in a few days or maybe hours.
That isn't now. I have attempted to wear out an Apacer CF 512MB by
doing a regular install of OpenBSD (no memfs, no mount ro) and then
turning the most verbose logging possible for spamd with daily
rotations. I then used it to run a firewall in front of a moderately
busy mailserver that had hundreds of spamtrap addresses.
After fourteen months I gave up and put the spamd stuff on the
mailserver (simply to keep all the email process on one box) at the
next OS update.
I have about a dozen client sites for one company that store all their
inventory data on CF at their branch firewalls on a similar CF. Updates
daily from head office overwrite the data.
No problems.
I saw some info recently that showed that flash technology is now less
likely to fail than a spinny disk. Wish I'd kept a link to it because I
don't really have time to Google it ATM.
Price is the killer on the basis of storage size but it is heading down
fast. We already have one flash drive in a desktop PC and it is slick.
For laptops the ruggedness is tops.
R/
From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look from up over?
