D. Jay Newman wrote:
>>William Chops Westfield wrote:

Uhm, I wrote this:

>>project are to have a device that runs without a PC running 7x24, run
>>a long time on backup power and be as reliable as is reasonable. The
>>biggest problem with PC's is it moving parts tend to wear out fast.
>>I've gone through a lot of drives (CD's, hard drives & floppies) over
>>the years
>
>
> How about using one of the VIA Epia motherboards and a compact flash
> card as a disk? No moving parts and they are inexpensive. Sure, they're
> not as fast as a high-powered system, but they can be made so they don't
> need a fan! Upload/Install software via a USB drive, disconnect it, and
> the system should run fine.

David & D. Jay, I wonder how long a compact flash card would last
in a PC with Windows or Linux. You'd have to limit swaps & be careful
of writes. I guess you could take advantage of a RAM fs. It would
be difficult to run something like MisterHouse to accomplish this.
I'm not saying possible.

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