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AlexC:
A "How to" write up would be nice  ;D (fingers crossed)

SirPeale:
How many writes does it take before it starts to affect the card?  I ask because we have a series of bartops that uses a CF card for storage, and I imagine over the years (it's at least fix years old) it'll see a lot of use.

jhanson:

--- Quote from: Peale on May 09, 2006, 01:11:10 am ---How many writes does it take before it starts to affect the card?  I ask because we have a series of bartops that uses a CF card for storage, and I imagine over the years (it's at least fix years old) it'll see a lot of use.

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It depends on the card, but I most often hear something like 10 million writes.  I think that is for each sector on the CF card, and there is some software that is able to spread the writes across the card to make it wear evenly.  However, I might be wrong but I don't think just plugging it into an IDE adapter and letting MAME write to it would distribute the wear, so every time MAME writes to the high score files and such, it would be writing to the same spot on the card.  Since MAME doesn't seem to write to those files all that often, t would probably take many years before it actually caused an issue, but eventually that spot on the card would wear out.  If you allow the swap file to write to the card, it would write much more often.

Stobe:
In all reality, if it takes a few years to be a problem, look at it this way...

What kind of CF card could you buy 3 years ago for $25 vs what kind of CF card you can buy today for $25?  Whatever card you put in there today would be almost worthless in 3 years anyhow.  If you upgrade your card every year or so, it would still be cheaper than pumping quarters into a machine, lol.

-Stobe

jhanson:

--- Quote from: Stobe on May 09, 2006, 08:41:59 am ---In all reality, if it takes a few years to be a problem, look at it this way...

What kind of CF card could you buy 3 years ago for $25 vs what kind of CF card you can buy today for $25?  Whatever card you put in there today would be almost worthless in 3 years anyhow.  If you upgrade your card every year or so, it would still be cheaper than pumping quarters into a machine, lol.

-Stobe

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It's not the cost.  It's the maintenance.  I'd rather build it and forget about it.  Imagine the card I can buy in 15 years when the card that's only being read from finally kicks the bucket!

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