Yeah he did say IDE Floppy but then went on to mention replacing a HD with a flash card, so I assume the question was in that context. If you only use your A1200 to play HD games and don't do a lot of writes then a newer flash card will last for years. I was suggested a SANDISK Ultra II, 4 or 8GB as very compatible. One is on its way here as I type.
BTW: I've had a cheapy compact flash card in my Digi camera since 2004. I estimate I've taken around 20,000 photos on it and it's still going strong.
Re : CF lifespan, I don't know how legit' the tests were but I found this comment on the mr zonbu site. If you can use them for this long on a linux based machine with swap a little ole A1200 should last twice as long.: (Quote)
"This would have been the case a few year ago. Modern CF cards controllers implement block rotation in hardware, which means that the swap is not always written on the same blocks.
We evaluated that it would take 10 years continuously writing on the card before the failure risk becomes significant.
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Aymeric
Zonbu Engineering Team"
Ten years continuously ? Hard to believe.
Gertsy
