25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
9:23 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 25 Sep 2008 at 7:46, Doc Shipley wrote:
My experience is that the failure characteristics are very close to
an IDE disk. A few bad sectors show up, moving very quickly to
pervasive failure.
To address the actual question, I think yes, CF is a better low-end
alternative to floppy. (I personally prefer spinning storage, absent
vibration problems or thermal dissipation issues.)
High-end, there are some really swank industrial solid-state drive
replacements.
Doc
I don't know, although I would bet on the
CF card handling more
cycles than an 8" floppy. I thought you were talking about currently
available media, and that's not even a contest.
No, it's a really practical question. Overall, would CF operating as
in the new primary mass storage device a system that was floppy-only,
provide the same service life as a floppy? Think machine tools,
textile equipment, CNC tools, lab equipment, etc.
What's the failure mode of CF? Is it "all at once" or "bits and
pieces" like a floppy?