[ale] CF card as disk drive

[hbbs at comcast.net]

What Dan Lambert said.  Here we are in a thread about storage media that will die utterly after some relatively small but indeterminable number of writes.  

Yes, it's unfortunate that the Microdrives still have a mechanical basis, but right now they fill a price/performance/reliability hole that the manufacturers haven't addressed yet.


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From: David Tomaschik <ozone at webgroup.org> 

> Wouldn't this defeat the purpose of the high reliability offered by 
> solid state media? 
> 
> David 
> 
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote: 
> > Chris - 
> > 
> > Get one of the MicroDrive-style CF cards and stop worrying about write 
> > cycles. 
> > 
> > - Jeff 
> > ale 
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