John Summerfield wrote: > Some years ago, someone on one of these lists - probably back in > Valhalla's time, reported clobbering his cf first time he used it. > > Folk surmised it was because it was automounted with the sync option, > preventing writes from being cached. On the other hand, I read many reports of machines using flash drives, particularly for things like set-top boxes and audio devices (often based on VIA EPIA motherboards), where I presume there are many writes. I've never seen any kind of warning with these, or statement about limited life. There really seem very mixed messages on this. [I'm interested in a fanless server using a flash drive - I find the idea that there would be no moving parts attractive.]
