To: ShadowAce
Not sure how this works if you only have an SSD...
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
3 posted on
05/04/2009 9:47:17 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hmm ... I didn’t realize that modern SSDs still suffered the life-limited writes.
4 posted on
05/04/2009 9:48:38 AM PDT by
bvw
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, but the data I've seen is that SSD's are not as fast as spinning disk drives (SDD's).
I would think that by their very nature, seek-time would be dramatically reduced on SSD's. SSD's would be much prefereable as there are no moving parts to wear out, no head crashes, smaller footprint, consume less wattage, etc. You could probably even make them hot swappable (ala USB thumb-drives, except as a direct plugin to the HD bus, not onto the USB).
So what is it? Bus-speed? If so, why would SSD's have less bus bandwidth than an SDD?
9 posted on
05/04/2009 10:10:21 AM PDT by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The comments under that article are worth reading — some good insights about file systems.
10 posted on
05/04/2009 10:16:53 AM PDT by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; kingu
Had a really good experience installing Ubuntu (
"Easy Peasy") on the EEE 701 from a flash drive.
I think the version is still Intrepid, not Jaunty.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
15 posted on
05/04/2009 10:49:09 AM PDT by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
BFL. Like the ram disk /tmp thing. Would make it operate more like Solaris boxes.
17 posted on
05/04/2009 11:07:30 AM PDT by
zeugma
(Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Big Giant Head
FYI! I know you like that little machine. :)
20 posted on
05/04/2009 11:30:13 AM PDT by
Marie Antoinette
(Proud Clinton-hater since 1998.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ah, yes.
I run Slackware (Linux) on an embedded VIA Eden 400/667 MHz computer that controls my pellet stove.
It uses a CompactFlash card, so I did the first two of these tweaks. (as well as disabling logging)
21 posted on
05/04/2009 10:54:25 PM PDT by
Fichori
(The only bailout I'm interested in is the one where the entire Democrat party leaves the county)
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