hello forum good night, i want to build a router with hotspot and many features included proxy, i worked with squid on a pc, but i want to use a routerboard to build this router, i buyed a 532a, rb333 and recently a rb433ah, the real questions is? wich device i can use to store the cache? maybe a portable hdd? i read about CF but also read that is limited the writes? somebody can advise me? thanks a lot

(MTFBWY) Lukkes
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death

CF is good and fast. New models don't suffer from short life

ok seems good, but i want to use RB433AH for the powerfull CPU and it doest have cf slot only microsd, have you ever heard about some routerboard that can handle a hard disk?

currently no RouterBOARDS are made that support hard disks, but you could use RB1000 or RB600 that have CF slots. Also you can use the microSD slot on the RB433AH

Just tried 120x 4GB CF in RB/600 version 3.10 / Bios 2.15

If the CF module is installed, the RB/600 won't boot up, LAN3 socket leds are lit and nothing more happens.

The same module was just pulled from RB/532A where it was used as disk for web-proxy, and it has ext2 filesystem on it with all the proxy data.

I guess the RB/600 tries to boot from this CF.

Please can you give some guidelines for choosing and preparing the CF for RB/600.
Is the low-level format required?

rgds,

Priit

try another brand or type. rb600 doesn't support all kinds of CFs

You are right.
2GB Kingston 133x (Elite Pro, code CF/2GB-S2) works fine.

The bad CF was PQI 4GB 120x HiSpeed.

It would be useful to have page in Wiki with information about tested CF and microSD cards, with table updated by users.

rgds,
Priit

I've just updated the wiki with two more cards for the 433AH.

Apacer 8gb high speed 300x is a no go in rb1000
Apacer 4gb 133 is good to go in a Rb600

can someone update wiki pls