[mythtv-users] CF card adapter Hard Drive

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 07:26:10 UTC 2010


On 8 September 2010 00:34, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 04:32:29 pm Tyler T wrote:
>> USB flash "thumb drives" are getting large enough and cheap enough
>> that they can be had (especially up to 8GB) for less than a CF + CF
>> adapter, so IMHO they are a viable option for a FE-only box.
>
> I guess most machines these days will boot from USB, but older machines might not.
>
> Of course if it's really old, it probably has a floppy drive, and there are floppy boot images that will teach it to boot
> from USB, helpful when you can't fit your boot image onto a floppy.
>
>>
>> The downside vs. CF would be performance, but a FE doesn't do much
>> disk I/O after bootup, so I can't imagine it being a deal-breaker.
>
> That's what I have discovered.
>
> With enough RAM you can do without swap as well.
>
>
> Of course the prices on SSDs are coming down, but not to the point where they are cheaper than a thumb drive or a
> CF+Adapter.
>
>
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I boot minimyth via compact flash, had the card about five years no issues.


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