[ale] CF card as disk drive

[Dan Lambert]

The write cycle issue reduces the life of solid state drives
significantly. I've had SS drives die after as few as 10K writes
(sometimes much fewer). Some of the newer technology uses random write
techniques to vastly improve the life of the chip, but overall, I think
a rotary disk is still more reliable.

Solid state can provide much faster access to the data due to having
virtually no seek time.

It's really a matter of trade-offs. We are still at a point where you
have to make compromises in data storage. That is realistically the only
issue I see with the ultraportable computers like the Asus EeePC.

Dan

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 16:55 -0500, David Tomaschik wrote:
> Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of the high reliability offered by
> solid state media?
> 
> David