Re: Throughput question with CF/DiskOnChip

From: linnix (me_at_linnix.info-for.us)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: 19 Jan 2005 09:05:22 -0800

> see if it is in fact capable of sustained transfer rates of 10MB/s or
better.

By the way, that's for transferring to the on-board cache only. We
could never get confirmations from manufacturers for ##x write speeds
to flash.

> MLC flash does not have the life expectancy of single level flash
(SLC).

Unfortunately, SLC CFs beyond 128M are VERY expensive. Some of our
clients use a small MLC (64M or less) primary boot drive and mount a
SLC secondary drive for additional storages.