Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
On 18 Jan 2007 at 13:46, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Not the cheapest, but hey - they're great
guys and can be found over on
the
maltedmedia.com CoCo list. At the same time, you
could pick up an IDE
interface for your CoCo that has a built-in CF socket right on it...
What's the life expectancy of a CF card used as a primary hard drive,
for say, a mailserver?
Offtopically -- it depends on the load of the mailserver and what the
spindles (ahem - not a physical spindle in CF's case, but the number & load
of spindles on a mailserver are one of the [if not the] main things a mail
admin considers... I/O is a primary bottleneck in that realm)...
Last time I'd figured on trying to use CF for the queue directory (the
hardest hit on a qmail server) on my mailserver at 10K writes per sector
before gesplosion (;-) on a 1G CF card, I'd figured that it would've lasted
about 2.5 to 3.5 months before bad sectors would start popping up. Doing
research very recently, I've noticed some of the newer superfast CF cards
(The RiData 150x 2G media, specifically) support 100K writes/sector before
wearout, but even then personally I wouldn't chance it.
Now, OTOH, as a boot drive I'm looking at using a 1G CF, reads are
virtually unlimited FWIU, and that would spare me a "secondary use" on the
one 15K RPM HD I do have in a server I'm building.
Ontopically, in a CoCo, they're frelling *Kewl* - even losing 1/2 the
storage of 512byte sectors in RSDOS, you get 255 emulated floppy drives
*and* a 45Meg "hard drive" partition for NitrOS-9 on a 128Meg CF, a
256Megger would be as big as most people could need for both - but
remember, turn off the computer, and swap CF -- you'll have all the storage
you'll ever need, for cheap... 64Meg & 128Meg CF aren't expensive at all
anymore.
[[ I wish I could allocation fundage for a 4G CF card, just to try out a 4G
drive under NitrOS-9... ;-) ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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