Re: CF Vendors

["Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp%spiritual-machines.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 07:55 -0700, Erik Berls wrote:
> On 7/1/07, Hoka Adam <hokaadam%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > > I'm swapping out the hard drives in my Cobalt Raq2's with CF cards in
> > > > order to make them a little cooler, and a little quieter.   I was
> > > > browsing through Newegg and came across a vendor that was selling CF
> > > > cards that were listed as 266x, 40MB/s.  The vendor is A-DATA.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any experience with them?  None of the other big names
> > > > (SanDisk, Kingston) had anything available above 133x.
> > >
> > > The problem with using CF cards is the sector erase time, and the limited
> > > number of erase cycles allowed.
> > > (So you need all the noatime, nodevmtime mount options).
> >
> > I think LFS is more CF friendly than FFS. And using ramdisk drive for 
> > temporaly data store is also handy to prolong the card`s lifetime.
> 

All: 

My bsd-appliance project works to circumvent some of the write operation
limitations.  

~BAS