Flash drives instead of HDDs?

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Peter Lampione

I am building a web server, and I would like it to be very quiet and
run cool. I realize also that I really don't need more than 2 GB of disk,
and 4 GB would be really more than enough.

Can I use a flash drive instead? Ideally, I'd like to plug in something
that just looks to the PC as an IDE drive, so that I don't have to
reconfigure anything, but just copy my hard drive to the flash drive,
and go (I use linux, where it's very easy to duplicate a system by
copying one disk onto another).

Are there any such flash drives?
Is there a problem with limited r/w cycles in a flash?

Thanks!

Peter
 
I have heard that Flash drives have a limited number of rewrites
before things get flakey. Not sure how many though.
 
I am building a web server, and I would like it to be very quiet and
run cool. I realize also that I really don't need more than 2 GB of disk,
and 4 GB would be really more than enough.

Can I use a flash drive instead? Ideally, I'd like to plug in something
that just looks to the PC as an IDE drive, so that I don't have to
reconfigure anything, but just copy my hard drive to the flash drive,
and go (I use linux, where it's very easy to duplicate a system by
copying one disk onto another).

Are there any such flash drives?
Is there a problem with limited r/w cycles in a flash?
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Far better sticking in the RAM and creating a RAM drive. It'll be
faster too.

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Peter Lampione said:
I am building a web server, and I would like it to be very quiet and
run cool. I realize also that I really don't need more than 2 GB of disk,
and 4 GB would be really more than enough.

Can I use a flash drive instead? Ideally, I'd like to plug in something
that just looks to the PC as an IDE drive, so that I don't have to
reconfigure anything, but just copy my hard drive to the flash drive,
and go (I use linux, where it's very easy to duplicate a system by
copying one disk onto another).
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It is possible but I recommend locking the system directorys and generating
the /var,/tmp directories in a ramdisk. I build a box using a 512mb flash
and an old P200 intel Marl motherboard as an X-terminal.

I bought it from ACS control and it works nicely, it looks like an IDE drive
and you boot from it. Just attach to your IDE connector and attach the flash
to the module. True appliance.

http://www.acscontrol.com/index_ACS.asp
 
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