16 Apr
2007
16 Apr
'07
10:41 a.m.
choice. If, however, your OS requires a writeable
drive and demands
swap space or does lots of filesystems writes outside of human
control, Flash might not be a wise choice, cheap or not.
Ethan, remember that in CFs, if you write a sector more times than
allowed and the sector go bad, it is automatically replaced for a good
sector. In effect, if hundreds of sectors go bad you'll not have bad sectors
on the CF, but the total capacity will get smaller. CFs has automatic
remapping/hiding of all bad sectors.