On 2012-11-16, Forman, Jeffrey <li...@jeffreyforman.net> wrote: > I mainly bought the machine because I liked being able to throw a cheap > huge PATA hard drive in there, and not be concerned with flash's supposed > write-limit, or mucking about with read-only filesystem, among other things.
I've used flash quite a lot in the last 10 years (CF, disk-on-module, and more recently SSD), they do fail sometimes of course, but the majority of failures I had were in the first month or two of use and not anything I can attribute to wear. Only time I mess around with read-only FS etc is for things where I want to avoid automatic fsck failing if the power gets pulled etc. Sometimes I do use syslog memory buffers for things (e.g. debug logging) which don't need to go to permanent storage, but mainly that's just because it can be a bit slow on some of these devices..
