Hi all, I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my bike once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes need to use my Debian OS, my files, and some shell scripts I've written when I'm away from home. So I invested Cdn$100 in a 16GB SDHC card to carry in my pocket every day and boot Debian Linux from. I used it for a year, but the card's write speed is quite slow, so I've stopped using it. I now have four options, and wonder which is best.
1. Use my laptop's internal hard drive to boot Debian from, and leave my laptop running at home every day. But this costs the environment, and the electricity costs add up over time too. 2. Buy a faster flash card. If you do a Google search for [ cf iometer benchmarks ] you can find some. But this option might cost me Cdn$200 or more; option 4 seems like it'll be cheaper and almost as convenient. 3. Buy a 2.5" external HDD. But I'm told that when these fall, they're much more likely to break than flash. 4. At http://rtr.ca/run_from_ram/ there's a tool that easily lets you use some union filesystem on top of flash storage to speed things up. I can set it up to union my laptop's internal HDD on top, when it's available. 5. I'm sure there are other options which I haven't thought of. Feel free to suggest more options. Which option do you think is best? Thanks in advance, --unforgettableid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org