[ILUG] Hardware queries

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

John P. Looney wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:10:07PM +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue mentioned:
> 
>>I mean seriously, how difficult would it be, to make a reasonably cheap 
>>storage medium, sans moving parts?
> 
> 
>  Simple. It's called Compact Flash. I've about eight boxes running with CF
> storage, running the "pebble" distribution.
> 
> John
> 

Yeah but, CF has a limited number of writes, while at least in theory, so long 
as the arm for the hard disk reader doesn't gouge a great big scrape down your 
hard disk surface, you can write to it indefinately.

Except of course for the fact, that, the disks are *rigged* to break by the 
hard disk cartels!!

-- 
Bryan O'Donoghue
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