On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm thinking of using a USB flash disk in place of a hard disk > on a rarely used server. > > This seems to be widely touted as a possibility. > But on the other hand I have been warned by several people > that the USB drive will get exhausted quite soon. > > I've been unable to find any hard figures on this. > > Also, I wonder if there is any reasonably standard way > of organising Fedora/Linux so that the "hard drive" > is written to as little as possible, > presumably using RAM instead. > > Dup from other thread > Over 10 year life time http://www.corsairmemory.com/_faq/FAQ_flash_drive_wear_leveling.pdf I am running a full F7 install on an 8GB stick John
