[App_rpt-users] Computing Hardware....

James Hill jrh at g0fhm.co.uk
Thu Jul 11 15:03:48 UTC 2013


On 11/07/2013 14:36, Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
> James, et al:
>
> ACiD is meant for a hard drive. It is not a good idea to put ACiD on
> anything other than a HDD. The write cycles will cause a flash drive to
> fail exponentially faster.
>
> If you want to use something that will work with a flash drive, use
> Limey Linux. It runs from RAM, and only writes to a flash drive when you
> save configs using svcfg. for Limey, 256MB flash will work, but it will
> also work with 1GB flash, as that is what I have inside the machine.
>
> ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ
>
>
> O

Hi Benjamin,

Duly noted!

I'll give Limey a shot. Hopefully it'll be able to support the RTL8192CU 
USB WLAN device that I have - CentOS will run it!

If I cannot get it to run, then I'll keep using the 2.5" HDD that's 
currently in!

Cheers,

James



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