I have used two different Sata compact flash adapters. 1. About $40 each - Addonics - model ADSACF. I bought several directly from their website. Similar to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812174005&cm_re=sata_compact_flash_adapter-_-12-174-005-_-Product 2. About $15 each Syba - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186061&cm_re=sata_compact_flash_adapter-_-12-186-061-_-Product
Both work well. The Addonics might be a higher quality unit but I have had both running in systems for over a year now. I have one system that has been running the Addonics card and the memory card below for three years now. For memory, I tried a couple of different flash cards and found that these work well and I have used several with zero issues - about $18 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208340&cm_re=compact_flash_8gb-_-20-208-340-_-Product Boot time is quick, although a faster card might make it even quicker. So for about $33 you can have a diskless system that is easy to maintain. For laptop hard drives I have found that these are reliable: $39.00 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148443 I'm not a fan of WD drives. I have had problems with them. Seagates seem to be much more reliable. Dave On 6/30/2011 10:14 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> Neil, >> >> If you are going for cheap, consider using a 8 gig Compact Flash Card in >> a Sata to CF card adapter. >> >> I have a few running in machines now for a couple of years with zero issues. >> >> I can tell you exactly what parts I am using if you want to go that >> route. 8 gigs is plenty of space for Ubuntu 10.04 and EMC2. I >> believe I have 5 gigs of free space or so. >> >> > Yes, I'd like to know. On a lot of these things, there are some models > that work, and some that cause > problems. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
