storage question

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Karoly Vaczko (FM)

Hello,

Thanks for all useful tip you guys gave me in the past, here I am again...

I have to make an embedded design in which there are no moving parts,
that I will manage with fanless EPIA mobo and bootable CF. But, there is
data (refreshed from time to time over the network) should be available
after an event where the target is switched off for a while or just
simply rebooted.


My question is: do you know some hardware that can be connected to my
target that has IDE or USB 1.1 interface and is able to 1) be rewritten
frequently 2) act like a "normal" drive under XPe (in order to be shared).

The amount of data to be kept is about 4-6 MBytes.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Karoly
 
Karoly,

I agree with Slobodan that USB disks with wear leveling algorithms in the firmware is a an option for you.
Although, I must admit that I found uDOC a bit expensive for mass production.
However, you pay for what you get :-)

Some other IDE Flash Disk may also be a good option to you (dependeing on what specs/price ou are looking for).
E.g., BiTMicro's: http://www.bitmicro.com/press_news_releases_20040309.php , http://www.bitmicro.com/products_acedisk_features.php.
Or iCreate: http://www.icreate.com.tw/e/img/PDF/i5060_datasheet_0320.pdf.

Also, if you heard, Hitachi has droped thier prices on microsdrives. Although I never tested them much.

KM
 
Karoly Vaczko (FM) írta:
Hello,

Thanks for all useful tip you guys gave me in the past, here I am again...

I have to make an embedded design in which there are no moving parts,
that I will manage with fanless EPIA mobo and bootable CF. But, there is
data (refreshed from time to time over the network) should be available
after an event where the target is switched off for a while or just
simply rebooted.


My question is: do you know some hardware that can be connected to my
target that has IDE or USB 1.1 interface and is able to 1) be rewritten
frequently 2) act like a "normal" drive under XPe (in order to be shared).

The amount of data to be kept is about 4-6 MBytes.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Karoly
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Thank you very much again! :)

Karoly
 
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