[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Compact PCI platform

[Steve Kennedy]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:06:09PM -0500, Steven Critchfield wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:12, Jay Milk wrote:
> > Since this is related... Does anyone have Asterisk working on a
> > Flash-drive?  I was considering this as an alternative to having a
> > harddrive in my machine, thus keeping down noise and heat.  A 512MB CF
> > card should be plenty to get Linux and * booted, another 64 or 128MB
> > card should be plenty for voice-mail and such.  Any takers?
> I'm sure it has been covered, but flash would not make a good long term
> voicemail option. Flash has a specific amount of times blocks can be
> written to. My company has some hand held recorders in the hands of
> doctors doing patient dictation, they are starting to see memory
> failures after a little more than a year or so of use. This is due
> partly because of the size of files. Each file will span multiple
> blocks, and therefore increases the likelyhood you will come back and
> write on the block again soon. A large card would stave off the problem
> by allowing the least used method a bit longer before reusing the blocks
> again.

A modern CF card has about 10,000 write cycles before it starts
failing.


Steve

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