On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David Whyte <<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I completely forgot about the<br>
write limitation and I am sceptical of everything going smooth with<br>
the IDE adaptor and the like. </blockquote><div><br>You won't have any problems with the adapter. There are no drivers - it's just a plug and socket really. I've got a 32MB CF card as my boot partition and I haven't had any problems in a year or so of use (not that I reboot much).<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I can get a cheap 80GB IDE Western<br>
Digital HDD for ~$80AUD, which is fine with me.</blockquote><div><br>Couldn't you buy several CF cards for that? If you have to replace the CF card every two years (which won't happen) you'd still be ahead.<br>
<br>And it's quieter, uses less power, and generates less heat. The only thing that would be better (IMHO) would be to network boot and have no local storage at all.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve <br></div></div>