Chris M wrote:
This is what I was made to understand, but there was
a guy on some yahoo group (for Stylistics or some
"slate" computer I think) who claimed he knew someone
who used a flash card w/Win95 or 98 installed, and got
a year or two out of it. Don't ask me...
I have customers who ship embedded systems with CF as the main disk
(linux systems).
Granted, they are not mail servers, but they do things like track gas
pumps, so there is a fair amount of constant activity.
They just "do the math" and replace the CF's before they fail. I don't
know the details but I think they were getting at least 4-5 years out of
them. I think there was some brand-specific factors also (i.e. some
brands have more write cycles).
I too would probably use spinning media for email, but I don't see any
reason why cf would not work for a few years. Heck, most IDE disks these
days only last a few years so a CF can't be worse. (which is why I
raid-1 all my ide data disks)
-brad