CF vs HDD
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I have a Morex 5677 case with a Jetway Via J7F4B (1,2 ghz, 1gb ram) and a 80gb ide 2,5" HDD. This setup use to run Smoothwall (many years ago).
Now I want to install pfsense on this hardware. It will not be used in production environment, just for some testcases & demo (with collegues). So there will never be heavy load.When installing pfsense, I get multiple errors like this: "warning - read_dma udma icrc error".
I tried some of the pfsense/google possible solutions, but cant fix it (mainly because of my limited knowledge i'm affraid…).Because these errors are DMA/HDD/cable related, I wanted to use a 2,5" SATA hdd.
But a CF -> IDE adapter (+ 8gb CF card) is cheaper. :-)Although there are multiple pfsense appliances for sale with an CF card, most people discourage the use of a CF because of the limited write/read cycles. Why do they sell it with a CF card? And with a cf-card, you can't use the normal image/setup?
The question:
So, what should I buy to refurbish the above setup? A 2,5" SATA HDD (€ 40) or a CF-IDE adapter + 8gb CF card (€ 15). -
It depends.
CF is slower than hdd.if you use it as dns cache, log everything or use ids/ips it will intensively read/write on CF … And will be slow.
I recomand ssd or hdd.
