Flashcard as hardrive

[Benvanz]

Well I will be building my smoothwall box soon and I was wondering if I could use a regular compact flash card thingy as my primary hardrive using one of these (http://www.sissom.org/portdigi/pics/P1010003.jpg). Would running smoothwall or clarkconnect (later date) 24/7/365 ruin the flash card?

The reason I would like to use one of these is because the price and no noise.

[Bad ConNecTioN]

The problem with flash cards is the limited uses before failure. However, this has been done before in similar situations.

[Benvanz]

The problem with flash cards is the limited uses before failure

doesnt smoothwall load mostly into ram anyway? Im new to smoothwall (so help out my stupidty :D)

BTW, I get almost NO power outages in my area :) (like once every 8 months) so reboots would be at a very minimum

[Bad ConNecTioN]

When I said limited uses, I ment LOTS of uses. You should be fine, there was a topic very similar to this one not to long ago. Just be aware that one day you might have to replace the flash card.


Good luck!

[David]

You might want to consider booting from CD, loading into RAM and using a USB key drive as storage? Just an alternative.

[Bad ConNecTioN]

Wow, good idea

[Benvanz]

Well if it helps, i got the idea from this (http://www.itworks.com/products/smoothwall-rackmount.htm) site... Im not talking about the one david gave

[SavageBasher]

I don't see why it wouldn't work. My smoothwall doesn't even take up 500 megs on the hard drive, and it doesn't access it as much as a normal computer would... I'd say go for it, and buy a decent CF card.