by xab » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:21 pm
Hi All,
using an IDE to CF adapter in our emus looks damn good for a silent operation, especially considering the amazingly low prices on that kind of items on eBay. I have seen such stuff selling for 1 euro/piece and with a shipping fee of 5 euros. I guess for 10 quids you could get 5 of these + s/h.
However.. I don't want to spoil the party but I think Emusers should be aware that flash memory technology (i.e any chip currently found in memory stick, compact flash, MMC, SD and so on) has a limited amount of write/erase cycles (reading is fine). That means that a heavy use of the compact flash card would lead it to die on you at some time. Of course, that kind of failure is not so obvious to notice as only some blocks would die at first but that's the beginning of trouble.
So my only advice would be the usual one: backup, backup & backup!
In the end, it is no very big deal but I would not like Emusers to have nasty surprises. It is no reason to worry too much because the lifespan of the card would anyway be quite long (it all depends on the use you make of your sampler).
Xavier