Re: storage question

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

> Hi Karoly,
>
> You can use some external USB disk that has wear leveling integrated in its firmware. Like M-Systems DOK/uDOC products.
> http://www.m-systems.com/content/Support/faq.asp?prodGroup=DOC#4
>
> You can use them as regular HDD (and share them on network of course)
>
> Regards,
> Slobodan
>
>
>
>
> "Karoly Vaczko (FM)" <karoly.vaczko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O2EM62NSFHA.244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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