[huskerlug] Re: Best linux distro for Asus Eee PC 900
- From: Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:37:42 -0500
I suppose we shouldn't even call these things SSDs that are in the
Eee's Perhaps the main one Psion that is in mine might be called that,
and they do have PCI-e connector, I do believe -- I've never opened mine
up, but I really think they might be considered large flash drives?
Anyway, I'm trying a few things to keep the writes down on my main one,
though I'm not quite sure what writes are. But some of it looks like
good advice. What's happening on the SDHC, might be anyone's guess, if
it goes out in 6 months, I won't be happy!
While I read through part of the article, my other regular computers are
not going to get SSDs, they're just way too expensive, for what I need.
adunlop wrote:
>> I have found SSDs to be quite fast for everyday use. Nothing that I
>> would call abysmal. In fact, booting and application startup seems
>> faster than a conventional harddrive. I could see it being slow if you
>> were editing video or something maybe.
>>
>
> This is one of the most insightful articles I've read in a long, long
> time. If you want to get SSD drives it's a must-read.
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
>
> To sum it up, there's a huge, huge bug in every drive but the Intel
> X-45's or whatever they're called that makes performance drop to well
> under a MB a second on writes after a week or twos usage. Reads will
> eventually suffer. Anyway, the article is definitely worth the read.
>
> Aaron
>
> On May 12, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Roger Feese wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:37:40PM -0500, adunlop wrote:
>>
>>> Are you guys taking care to minimize write-cycles? SD cards have a
>>> very low number of write cycles, especially if you're not taking care
>>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Actually, I'm running off of the internal SSD, but I have run off of
>> flash cards and usb flash drives before. I typically do a few tweaks
>> to
>> reduce writes:
>>
>> 1. run without swap
>> 2. mount partitions with noatime option
>> 3. ramdisk for /var/log and /tmp ...
>>
>> Haven't ran into much trouble so far...
>>
>> The following page has some good tips on running Linux of flash
>> drives:
>> http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/linux-on-flash.html
>>
>>
>>> SSD hard drives are a little better, but they have abysmal
>>> performance
>>> unless you're taking proper care of them.
>>>
>> I have found SSDs to be quite fast for everyday use. Nothing that I
>> would call abysmal. In fact, booting and application startup seems
>> faster than a conventional harddrive. I could see it being slow if you
>> were editing video or something maybe.
>>
>> -Rog
>>
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