timeshift to flash memory (SD/CF card, USB-Drive) (1 Viewer)

[mdbarber]

With the current cost of cf cards and the wear and tear factor not sure there is any advantage to this at all, maybe cut down on power use but given the cost of a cf@4gb will exceed the cost of an 80gb hdd and last no where near as long.....

I still don't get it - have any of you people actually tried a flash drive or are you just going by some urban legend that it won't work? OK, fine if you've got a machine with loads of spare RAM, use a RAM drive. If you've got money to burn, use a SSD. If you want a complicated flash solution, use a CF card in an adaptor. But my £5 4GB USB flash stick has been working perfectly for over a year now, no stuttering on SD or HD DVB-S channels. What's not to like? If it "doesn't last long", I'll buy another one - £5 a year (if it died tomorrow) is hardly a big problem (and they're even cheaper now).

Rob

lol can't even rem why i sub'd this thread, think it dates back to the days when flash drives were much more expensive and smaller than flash drives.
and i am with you on this, my original interest was sparked by the possibility of actually running windows and mp off a cf/ide adapter as a low cost quick boot system, now i have a ssd...

 

[Owlsroost]

I still don't get it - have any of you people actually tried a flash drive or are you just going by some urban legend that it won't work? OK, fine if you've got a machine with loads of spare RAM, use a RAM drive. If you've got money to burn, use a SSD. If you want a complicated flash solution, use a CF card in an adaptor. But my £5 4GB USB flash stick has been working perfectly for over a year now, no stuttering on SD or HD DVB-S channels. What's not to like? If it "doesn't last long", I'll buy another one - £5 a year (if it died tomorrow) is hardly a big problem (and they're even cheaper now).

Rob

Rob - exactly which USB memory stick do you use ?

Tony

 

[RobNorthcott]

Rob - exactly which USB memory stick do you use ?
Tony

(Sorry - my last post sounded like a bit of a rant didn't it! Nothing personal folks...)

The stick I'm using is a Freecom Databar. I bought it because it was the cheapest 4GB stick I could find at the time, mostly as an experiment. Dabs still have them listed here, but weirdly for electronic kit the price seems to have gone up (I paid about £5 for it a year ago, now they want £8).

I did have a bit of stuttering when I first tried it, but since I formatted it NTFS instead of FAT it's been absolutely rock solid. No idea why the NTFS format helps - apparently NTFS should be worse for throughput in theory. I've got the drive set up as "optimised for speed" (rather than quick removal), which I assume turns on the write cache - but I think it defaults to that with NTFS anyway (I think the quick removal thing only works with FAT).

I don't know why I've been so lucky with this when most other people seem to reckon it's not possible
Perhaps I just got lucky with the batch of chips, or my motherboard has really efficient USB handling - I don't know... Do nvidia's chipsets handle things differently from Intel/AMD/VIA et al?

Rob