Hi Tony, hijacking my own thread a little but you mentioned Netbooks... What do you run on it and does it do it well?
I am toying with the idea of a used Netbook as lightweight, space-server alternative to my Dell Inspiron. Something like an Acer Aspire One series D260 or D270 (both have well supported hardware afaict). My concerns are that it will not run even Gnome 2 well and I'll have to go with something different like CrunchBang. On 10 February 2013 14:19, Tony Wood <tonywoo...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > They usually come with a spacer/adapter. > Works fine in my netbook. > > Tony Wood > > > On 10/02/13 14:14, Chris Dennis wrote: >> >> On 09/02/13 14:00, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >>> >>> On 8 February 2013 21:50, Imran Chaudhry <ichaud...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm thinking of buying an SSD for my Dell Inspiron 6400 when Debian >>>> Wheezy becomes stable and to benefit from fast bootup. >>>> >>>> The laptop is 2006 vintage and has a "spinning rust" SATA drive. Can I >>>> just use any SSD SATA laptop drive as a drop-in replacement or do I >>>> have to be careful about particular types eg SATA II/III, BIOS >>>> incompatibilities etc? >>>> >>> >>> I have that exact same laptop. I put a 7mm SSD in it, and it made an >>> amazing difference to the speed of the laptop. >>> The only thing you really need to care about with HDD to SSD >>> replacement is the height of the HDD, is it 9.5 or 7mm high. >>> The 6400 can fit both 7mm and 9.5mm SSD. >>> I would advise that you purchase a 7mm SSD because then it is more >>> lilely to fit into a new laptop when you eventually need it. >>> I put a Crucial M4 7mm in mine. >>> >> >> Blocks of storage in SSD drives can only be written a certain number of >> times. Is that something to worry about, or does the firmware/software >> mitigate that problem these days? >> >> In other words, do SSD drives last just as long as spinning disk drives >> under normal use (for some value of 'normal')? >> >> cheers >> >> Chris > > > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F http://about.me/imranchaudhry
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