On 2008-05-05, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone see a problem with using CF cards in a removeable CF/IDE > adapter for daily/weekly/monthly backup cycle? Note: not for 30-year > archive or anything, just for backup.
You'll need to use a CF/USB adapter rather than CF/IDE if you want to hot-swap the cards. But then, if you're using USB you might find it's cheaper to get your flash in the form of pen-drives. When rewriting flash, a whole block must be erased at a time and the unchanged parts rewritten; a wikipedia article says flash block sizes are typically 16/128/256k. For backups, you may be able to improve performance if you aggregate writes into larger blocks, it may be worth investigating "(dump|tar...) | dd obs=XXk of=/dev/XX".
