On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Jimi Malcolm wrote:

> billy ball (Fri@1847)
> > but you don't have to send the z50! a 340MB or 1GB microdrive is just 
> > fine...  the 340s are going for about $40 or so new and the 1GBs are 
> > running about $150 (about the same as the 2/4GB microdrives!)...
> 
> If you're going with Compact Flash, I really recommend getting 4x or
> more.  You're really notice the difference between some of the low end
> 1x cards and medium range 4x or more.

most definitely, and good advice, jimi! 

i'm still waiting for a z50/NetBSD user to come up with a torture test 
with swap on CF...

hmm... where's the 256MB CF i bought a year ago?

:-)

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