[openbeos] Re: AW: Re: Haiku on Asus eeePC
- From: Fredrik Modéen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:36:35 +0100 (CET)
> 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.
I know I was thinking of this when I was thinking of making a ITX PC. In
Sweden we have one of those plug-in to IDE things with CF support for
about 10 euro. But it's not the flash drive that makes me want one, its
the small size. :)
> -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
>>
>>
>
>
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MVH
Fredrik Modéen
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