Hitachi, i may have been hammering/using the dirves more than the
usual user with a swap file, i had my slugs doing quite a bit
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 01:36:54AM -0000, dystopianrebel wrote:
> I only use Hitachi microdrives, and I've found them to be very reliable. Which brand were you using?
>
> --- In nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com, nslu@... wrote:
> >
> > My own experince with microdrives is that they die quicker than flash
> > drives, at every opertunity they try to park the heads and IIRC from
> > reading the datasheet its rated to 300k head parks, when listening to
> > mp3's on the zaurus c3000 you hit that pretty quickly
> >
> > i did end up replacing the microdrive with a cf card on a brand new
> > zarus and moving the micro drive to the slug (so i could ahve a swap
> > file) howeer had to ditch it after the drive died (tick of death)
> >
> >
> > if you do go down the microdrive, make sure you apply those flash
> > hacks to prevent writing to disk, they will make the drive last longer
> >
> > as a side note, CF cards tend to last longer as a swap file than SD
> > cards do (or at least they did a couple of years back) we belive it
> > had to do with the quality of the flash chips and drive controllers
> > (which at the time were of much higher quality than SD cards, sandisk
> > SD cards came close but were still beaten by a mid range CF card)
> >
> > another side note, IIRC a microdrive cost 3-5 times more than a CF
> > card and few cards were avalible in the same capacity
>
>
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