--- Alexandre Souza <alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br>
wrote:
What's the
life expectancy of a CF card used as a
primary hard drive,
for say, a mailserver?
Low, very low.
Remember: You have a hundred thousand or so
recordings in each byte of
the card. It has a special mechanism to "distribute
wear" but it will come
to an end someday. And when you say about
no-flash-oriented software, you
are talking about a lot of writes. And it wears
FAST!
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...
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