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Mini-ITX Flash IDE Adaptor $19.95

wow, cool find... i'd be more inclined to purchase if it was a little cheaper. it's not ridiculously expensive, but it's more money i'd pay for a toy i have no practical use for.
 
now they just need to make one of these with a couple ddr slots and a backup battery 😀

toss a couple 1gb sticks of ram in and instant uber fast boot drive
 
Does using a flash drive (such as a Compact flash drive) as a HD shorten the life of the flash drive significantly? I mean, doesn't flash drive has a write/erase life of 10,000 or something like that?
I was thinking about using one of these to store Debian with multimedia players (mplayer, xine, etc), but where do I put the swap?

Thanks.
 
HOLY CRAP! This is what I've been looking for. Perfect for my carputer!!!!!! Just stick an OS and 1 app on this and use dvds/cds for everything else. AWSOME THANKS!
 
Originally posted by: dgouldin
"economical and rugged" - they forgot to mention SLOW

Still very useful for some applications, though.
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Throttling down your C3-based Mini-ITX system so it is slow enough to allow a person to play the old DOS version of Redneck Rampage again? 🙂
 
As long as your OS of choice isn't running a swapfile off one of these, you shouldn't really have much problems with flash media's inherent lifespan.
 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
I mean, doesn't flash drive has a write/erase life of 10,000 or something like that?
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Yes. Unfortunately so. But flash cards have a built in load balancer if I've been told correctly.
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There is a special file system you can use in Linux to minimize the amount of read/write activity to the flash disk. JFFS is the old version, and I think there is a new vesion now called JFFS2. Some open source projects like the LocustWorld MeshAP project use this with embeded flash disk systems.
 
That would actually own for my router setup. It does more reading than writing anyways and all I have to do is make sure there's no swap being used. (Freesco)
 
Originally posted by: batmanuel
Originally posted by: dgouldin
"economical and rugged" - they forgot to mention SLOW

Still very useful for some applications, though.
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Throttling down your C3-based Mini-ITX system so it is slow enough to allow a person to play the old DOS version of Redneck Rampage again? 🙂
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Actually, I wish someone _would_ build a card-deck sized "DOS gameputer" with toggles to run at 286, 386, 486 speeds and with a RAM + flash hard drive. Or 3.5" floppy-drive sized, for copy-protected old games that need the floppy.

My old 486 is too bulky to grab and set up for spur-of-the-moment X-Com gaming 🙁 and it's way too fast for Wing Commander I and II 🙁 🙁
 
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