> @Chris: I disagree on this one. I have been using a 4 GB CF card in my > Shuttle barebore for over a year running vanilla Debian 6.0 with the > modifications described above which will mostly limit unnecessary write > access to the media itself. The CF card still runs fine. > > The german computer magazine C't did a test over 6 years ago where they > tried to kill a 2 GB USB stick by writing incredible often to the flash > media but even after 16 000 000 write cycles the stick didn't die. > Unfortunately I did not find the article itself but only a reference to it: > http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Ueberflieger-291740.html
I don't have any experience and I don't know how microSD compares to CF, but K.Mandla has also used CF cards as "hard drives" with success: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/poor-mans-ssd/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/poor-mans-ssd-one-week-later/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/poor-mans-ssd-of-course-you-know-this-means-war/ http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/poor-mans-ssd-test-results/ -- Morne Alberts
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