Conor Wynne wrote:
> I would image that switches and routers would use very little power, and
> I am entrigued by your suggestion of compact flash.
> Have you implemented this Padraig?
> I would welcome comments from anyone who has done so.
Well it's easy really. Compact flash has an ide interface
so you just need a cheapo passive adapter to connect
it to a standard IDE controller. Something like:
http://www.pcengines.ch/cflash.htm
Note you can get 45x flash now (which is 6.7MB/s)
and of course the seek time is going to be excellent ;-)
One thing to note about CF is that it has a limited
amount of writes. It's usually around 1 million so
it's not too onerous to handle this in linux. You
just have to mount your filesystem readonly in normal
operation and have a ramdisk for read/write stuff (/tmp).
There are a few distros around now like peeble that
do this by default. This is a nice overview:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6787
> Its gotta be cheper than my other mad idea - investing in a 5 grand
> solar panel for the roof. Really got to grasp that savings concept!
that would be good long term of course.
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