[Voyage-linux] SSDs, CFs and write endurance

[Jeff Ramin]

Is there any difference in the underlying physical medium between
a solid state disk and a compact flash card? If not, why is it "bad"
to mount CFs as read-write, when that's how SSDs are used day in
and day out?

I'm seriously considering using the CF on an ALIX board as a
standard read-write disk. I've read many articles and posts that this
is a bad idea, but with the latest CF cards out today, is that still
true?

Here's an article on the subject. Comments?

http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html

Thanks.

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Jeff Ramin
Software Engineer
Singlewire Software
PO Box 46218
Madison, WI 53744-6218

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