2011/7/1 Dave <e...@dc9.tzo.com>: > 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
I bought the cheapest CF SATA adapter http://www.dealextreme.com/p/compact-flash-cf-to-sata-hdd-converter-11164 > > 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 and exacty the same Transcend 8GB x133 card on D525MW. Also works well, but Ubuntu starts pretty slow. Latency is near 8200 with HT disabled and isolcpus enabled, I expected better resuts. Probably some BIOS settings might improve it a little? Andrew > 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 >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
