The whole idea of read-only is for two reasons:
- To protect the HD in case of unexpected shutdowns (which could happen
nightly in a typical museum situation) 2) To preserve the CF memory, which has a limited number of write cycles, in the case of a HD-less system
Are you sure on this point? I just switched from a normal 2.5" IDE drive in my laptop to a compact flash card using an IDE<->CF adaptor. Are you referring to USB memory sticks (which might inhibit the same technology) or to CF cards as well? Now that i am so happy having a completely silent laptop, i might run into read/write errors soon....
rgds, PP