Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equip the XO-1s there with SD cards. Are there any restrictions wrt size, speed, etc. that they should be aware of when purchasing the SD cards? I'm particularly asking after reading James' mention of seeing more issues with newer cards and

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Hi all, > the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equip the XO-1s there with > SD cards. Are there any restrictions wrt size, speed, etc. that they should > be aware of when purchasing the SD cards? I'm particularly asking af

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 24 March 2011 20:26:05 Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Hi all, > > the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equip the XO-1s there with > SD cards. Are there any restrictions wrt size, speed, etc. that they should > be aware of when purchasing the SD cards? I'm particularly askin

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Scott, Arnd, thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions, much appreciated! :-) Cheers, Christoph On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 24 March 2011 20:26:05 Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equ

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi Rodolfo, I think the idea is to use it as a storage device. Christoph On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Rodolfo D. Arce S. < rodolfo.arc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Christoph: > > You're talking about running the OS from the card? > > Because you could use it as an external drive only. But I'm ge

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-24 Thread Rodolfo D. Arce S.
Hi Christoph: Then is not so much a matter of I/O, at least not in the terms that we think of it. We're more incline to think how fast a file can be copied from the NAND to the external device, but that only happens when you're copying several files at once. We're programmers, geeks. Perhaps it d

Re: Any restrictions or recommendations regarding SD cards?

2011-03-25 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Friday 25 March 2011 01:27:47 Rodolfo D. Arce S. wrote: > You should try different types and brands, as long as they all have > the same size, cause, in this cases, size does matter. This way if > there is statistics that proves one brand not working is minimal > compared to the whole batch of a