FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Haiku on Asus eeePC

["scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you really want to try out Haiku right now on a flash drive you can
get one of the types that look just like a normal IDE drive to the
system:
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/Modlist.asp?CatNo=87&LangNo=0
They are still a bit pricey but if you only need 1GB or so it
shouldn't be too bad.  If you're looking to make a quiet system this
might be the way to go.  Some of these can plug right into a
motherboard where an IDE cable used to plug in, so they save a drive
bay as well.  You might also use it as a boot drive and then keep your
data on a bigger standard hard drive.  I've used these and they are
pretty handy.
-scottmc


On 10/30/07, Ben Allen <ben.allen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/30/07, Ronny Wisor <RonnyWisor@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Jonas
> >
> > as far as I know these new flash-discs/Solid State Discs (SSD) are not the
> > same like a normal CF- or SD cards. They are optimised to support reading
> > and writing like a normal harddisk and can transfer 40 MB/s. I have seen it
> > on the CeBit in Hannover this year.
> >
> > Best regards
> >            Ronny
> >
>
> Yes, the solid state drives use a different material than regular
> flash drives and typically survive through many more read/write
> cycles.  Flash is also optimized towards reading and writing large
> blocks (closer to the size of a digital photo), and the solid state
> drives handle small files much better.
>
> One other option that is available over flash is a ramdisk.  A
> compressed system image is stored on flash, at bootup it is read into
> a ramdisk and the flash is not used again until shutdown, where the
> ramdisk is compressed and stored back on the flash.  I have used
> minimalistic Linux distributions designed this way from a 512-1024MB
> USB flash drive and have generally been impressed with the performance
> on small\embedded systems (with the current price of memory so low
> compared to the price of solid-state storage, it's not too expensive
> to have a system with 5GB of ramdisk and 1GB of RAM).  Haiku's boot
> loader probably isn't at the point where it can handle something that
> complicated yet, but I'm a major fan of small form factor and embedded
> systems and I'm eager to try something like that in the future.  The
> eeePC and VIA's Epia line of boards look like they could be good
> candidates for experimentation.
>
> -Ben
>
>