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On 6/23/09, Taylor, Kaia <kaia.tay...@schwab.com> wrote: > > > Speaking of tweaking netbooks, I'll have one in hand soon. I'd be happy to > eventually give a brief presentation, following on hans's presentation and > the idea that it might be neat to compare price/functionality/value. Here's > mine http://www.mwave.com/mwave/SkuSearch_v3.asp?SCriteria=BA25872 > I have 2 ideas, in terms of such a presentation > > OS: > I'm assuming that Xandros (which comes pre-installed) will *have* to go, and > while I'm doing that, why not match it up with someone else's OS in PLUG, so > we can compare performance with no extra variables introduced by a different > OS. If anyone has an existing netbook, and is interested, give me a shout. > NB my cheapie netbook's SSD is only 4G. > > Hardware diags: > I'm also wondering if anyone who has gotten a refurb like mine has a handy > link to some baseline/diag tools to test everything before the > manufacturer's warranty runs out. My friend got an EEE which it turns out > couldn't reach USB 2.0 speed on a couple of his ports, for instance. That > particular issue is easy to test by, whatever, time ... dd to the SD card > mounted on that port, but I'm guessing there are other hardware check > scripts that can save me some work with other hw components. We might want > to run the same diags on different models of netbooks if we want to do side > by side comparisons. > > > Regards, > Kaia Taylor > > All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received by the Charles > Schwab corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival and review by > someone other than the recipient. > > -----Original Message----- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of der.hans > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:18 AM > To: quatsch > Subject: Ted T'so on SSD and journalling > > moin moin, > > The first paragraph in the quote was a comment on Ted's blog. The second is > Ted's response. Read the blog post at the URL given below. > > ### > # # 2 tytso Says: > March 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am > > @1: I’d thought that the reason to avoid ext3 on SSDs, at least most of the > ones available today, was not the total number of writes but rather the > repeated writes to the same place on the disk (that is, the journal) > > Norman, > > Actually, even the most primitive SSD’s and Flash drives have to get this > right, because the Windows FAT filesystem are constantly updating the same > locations on disk (namely for the File Allocation Table), which is in a > fixed location on disk. So although there’s not a lot we can count on in > terms of the quality of flash drives’ wear level, it’s very likely they get > that right, since otherwise their reliability on basic FAT filesystems, > which are used in essentially every single digital camera on the market, > would be pretty bad. > ### > > http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/01/ssds-journaling-and-noatimerelatime/ > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ > # Magic is science unexplained. - der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold http://tinyurl.com/44zfgx http://www.obnosis.com/motivation/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
