[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:45 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>> My personal experience using flash devices (with an NSLU2) has shown
>> that the "conventional wisdom" that it will fail after a short period
>> of heavy writes is incorrect. I have been running a complete Debian
>> system from a flash device for close to a year now. I guess the wear
>> leveling is working.
>
> That's my experience, too.  In a previous job we had industrial
> touchscreen PCs that ran Windows 95 off of CompactFlash.  We had  
> dozens
> of these things in the field and disk failures were pretty rare, much
> rarer than other hardware failures.  Anecdotes don't settle the  
> matter,
> of course, but if someone's considering this kind of setup I'd say go
> for it.

As long as you have an image stored someplace safe,and can stand a  
little downtime in the event of a failure, what do you have to lose?
>

> We never experienced any card compatibility issues, either.  We were
> mostly using SanDisk cards.

A long time ago this was a problem, but not in the last 5 - 7 years  
IMHO.

beww