| dellorto  
 
 
 
 
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|  | Posted: July 06 2006,07:50 |  |  ok,
 i now have a compact flash card and a cf to ide adapter ...
 
 i bought a good cf-card, 1gb in size, 120x ...
 i made an harddrive install on it and its damn fast and silent!
 
 ... very well! ... perfect! ... i thought ... but i was wrong!
 
 because now i know that the cf-cards do wear out after an specific amount of read-write cycles ...
 
  
 especially swapping will wear it out fast.
 
 so how to reduce the read and write cycles?
 
 the solutions i am thinking about:
 
 a: leave the harddrive install as is and see how long it will last (hmm ... anybody eyperience with that?)
 
 b: leave the harddrive install but swap on an usb stick
 
 c: frugal install - i do not think this will reduce the read/write cycles, because it is mounted from the cf and not from ram.
 also a frugal install is very slow!
 
 d: toram install - much too less ram! just 96mb! nogo
 
 e: use the cf card as booting device and run the whole system from an usb stick plugged into the pcmcia usb-adapter.
 that solution will reduce the load on the cf card to a minimum, but then i am where i startet! (and i still do not have a clue how to alter the usb or pcmcia boot floppys to load both drivers)
 
 
 your opinions??
 
 
 thanks in advance!
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