CF card as HDD?
Results 1 to 7 of 7

Thread: CF card as HDD?

  1. March 24th, 2007, 04:00 PM #1
    Byan
    Byan is offline Virtual PC Surgeon!
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    1,255

    CF card as HDD?

    I am thinking about buying a card like this one
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ME:B:WNA:US:12

    at 40MB/s, it's a hell of a lot faster then my HDD in my laptop, and it has enough space for me to put the OS on it

    I just concerned about how long it will last. I can't find any documentation on sandisk's site about how many rewrites it can handle.

    any thoughts?

    thanks in advanced,
    Byan
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. March 24th, 2007, 04:25 PM #2
    lgbpop's Avatar
    lgbpop
    lgbpop is offline In an Altered State
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Ft Myers FL
    Posts
    8,520
    If it's the same storage medium as their USB flash drives, it's durable enough. i have a few of those that I use almost daily, they're almost three years old already. If that's the case, by the time this wore out a replacement would cost half of today's price and have twice the capacity. It might be slowed down some by the bus connection if you connect via USB, though.

    Interesting idea.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. March 24th, 2007, 04:34 PM #3
    Byan
    Byan is offline Virtual PC Surgeon!
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    1,255
    it won't be via USB, I have a built-in CF that I beleive is connected directly to the southbridge. I should look this up though.

    I am gonna have to do some.. research about how things writing to the HDD alot in linux. I plan on removing the swap partition (it's the linux equiv of a page file for those who don't know) as it isn't used ever and moving anything that is gonna want to write alot to the actual HDD. which is probably firefox.. and other stuff like that
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  4. March 24th, 2007, 05:28 PM #4
    104456's Avatar
    104456
    104456 is offline Dyslecix Moderator
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
    Location
    Cheshire UK
    Posts
    10,060
    You will need to look up how many read writes the card supports Ive an inkling you could burn it out pretty quickly.OSs that are designed to run from thumb drives usually use the system ram for read/writes to prevent such degradation occouring.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  6. March 24th, 2007, 05:30 PM #5
    Byan
    Byan is offline Virtual PC Surgeon!
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    1,255
    Quote Originally Posted by 104456
    You will need to look up how many read writes the card supports Ive an inkling you could burn it out pretty quickly.OSs that are designed to run from thumb drives usually use the system ram for read/writes to prevent such degradation occouring.
    I wonder if I can find a distro of linux made for this.

    the laptop has 1.25gigs of ram.. I am sure I could spare a bit of it for a tmpfs
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  7. March 24th, 2007, 05:35 PM #6
    104456's Avatar
    104456
    104456 is offline Dyslecix Moderator
    Join Date
    Oct 2002
    Location
    Cheshire UK
    Posts
    10,060
    Funny you should mention I came across this link not an hour ago
    Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive

    and amongst the comments is this site:
    www.pendrivelinux.com
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  8. March 24th, 2007, 05:42 PM #7
    Byan
    Byan is offline Virtual PC Surgeon!
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Posts
    1,255
    lol, ok, I'll take a look
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules