[Discuss] noise

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-05-06 13:07-0700 David Bronaugh wrote:

> I'm going to be experimenting with something interesting in this regard... 
> CF->IDE adapters, and high speed compact flash cards. This would eliminate 
> the remaining noise in my laptop, as there would be no moving parts at all.

Doesn't compact flash memory have a limit on the number of rewrites before
it dies?  I believe there is a filesystem that attempts to reduce rewrites
because of this issue.  Is that how you plan to reduce the impact of this
issue?

Alan
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