Kirk, My machine which is located in a "conditioned by God" shop goes through terrible cycles of temperature and humidity. I found by stressing hard drives this way, I was loosing about 1 year! I changed to the CF card (solid state drive if you will) and found the machine to be much more reliable and somewhat faster than the drives I was using.
Art 1:17 AM 11/22/2009, you wrote: >Is there any advantage to using a CF or thumb drive as opposed to a 2.5 >or 1" hard disk? Physical size should not be a big issue since most >machines and equipment boxes usually are fairly large. The difference in >power consumption and price between a flash drive and a small hard disk >compared to other power and money sinks is negligible. A hard drive is a >little more convenient to set up. > >I just have an Inquiring mind. I'm thinking if you guys are going >through the trouble, there must be a reason for it? > >-- >Kirk Wallace >http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html >California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users