I've always thought DOM is exactly the same as ide-CF, just circumventing the need of (an ide cable and) an adapter. The only difference I can see, is that DOM is incredibly expensive, while CF prices slowly continue to go down.pakt wrote:
Hmm, I wonder if the "DiskOnModule" flash memory uses the same interface as a Compact flash card...
Paul
I looked it up in Wikipedia, but there's not a lot to find about DOM. Just this:
There is no date on this article, but I think things have evolved a little.Disk on module
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A Disk on Module (DOM) is a Flash (Fast electronic memory) Disk with 40/44 pins IDE/Standard ATA Interface and are used as a computer hard disk drive (HDD). The flash to IDE converter simulates a harddisk, and therefore the modules can be used without additional software or drivers. They are used particularly within Embedded computing systems where they can often be deployed in to very harsh environments (where mechanical hard disk drives would simply fail), or in a thin client because of small size, low power consumption and silent operation. DOM are losing there market to (integrated on motherboard) CompactFlash (CF) to IDE converters. that provide hard disk drive simulation for the widely supported CF standard.
DOM's are highly reliable as they do not have any moving parts like regular hard disks and are small in size and light in weight. However read / write times are much slower than standard modern day hard disk drives.
Currently storage capacities range from 32MB to 4GB.
It is worth mentioning the "read/write times" have accelerated to about the real world usb 2.0 speed in the newest CF's and the article forgets to mention the very fast access times, that no hard disk can equal.
Anyway, soon we'll probably see the first CF-Sata adapters. (That would be good, both in terms of speed and power consumption.) Perhaps followed shortly by a -hot-swappable- eSata stick, that will make its usb colleague obsolete? Hmm, we'll see.
We have seriously deviated from your original topic, eBoxPup-2.13!
If there were a poll I would vote "yes please, continue its development!"
best regards,
Bert