I shut of swap/virt mem on SSD's anyhow. then again i also put a large ish
amount of memory in those machines for that purpose.
Good read however. It explains some issues with gaming from an SSD and the
issues inherent with it. and why it works better as an "OS" drive than game
install drive.
On
Actually, for a single erase block on a thumb drive, its lifetime in
Erase/Program cycles is more in the range of 100 to 3,000.
Let me back up a bit and explain the structure and technology of flash.
There are 2 kinds of flash (well, becoming 3 - I've not been watching
TLC): SLC and MLC. MLC i
Oh one other thing. I got USB pin to socket adaptors and connected the USB
drives internally on the motherboard so that I didn't have them externally
mounted on the case. Just an idea.
On Apr 25, 2014 6:11 AM, "James Dugger" wrote:
> The guys at PLUS LIST have put together a wiki (see below) on
The guys at PLUS LIST have put together a wiki (see below) on building a
server using USB as primary boot devices. I have successfully built 2
servers using their method. Their method is most likely overkill for your
needs but you could use it as a base for the manual install.
http://tagcose.com
Most systems now identify by uuid.
As an idea if you have an internal USB header and related io plate you coul
use that and tie it up internally so it does not get pulled by mistake.
And Ubuntu 14.04 sees USB drives as valid install destinations without any
need to change.
On Thursday, April 24,
won't setting a label and identifying the drive by label (rather than
/dev/*) prevent that?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, JD Austin wrote:
> I've had the best luck with usb3 drives even if the computer only supports
> usb2.0.
> You can just burn a bootable cd/dvd and instal
I've had the best luck with usb3 drives even if the computer only supports
usb2.0.
You can just burn a bootable cd/dvd and install it as if it were a hard
drive.
Keep in mind if you unplug it and plug in other usb devices it's device
name may change so your best choice is plug it in the same usb po
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
This PC doesn't have USB 3.0, will USB 2.0 be fast enough?
Probably. It won't be as fast as SATA, but it took 58 seconds to rsync
my ~ to a USB2 disk just now. 140G of stuff, 125M transferred, and this
is a spinny disk--a flash disk might be f
I would probably prefer a USB. I have lots of them laying around in sizes
ranging from 1Gb to 16Gb.
Anysites that explain how to installLinux to a USB drive suchthat the system
would view it as a hard drive?
Thanks!
Peter
On 4/24/2014 4:58 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
There are a few ways to
What I normally do is to boot any computer off of an install CD and find the
USB partition.
Then I run a plain vanilla install to that partition.
For as long as you don't get creative with X drivers, it will boot your
washing machine.
As usual, YMMV and you can't sue me.
Free advice... :)
ET
There are a few ways to do this, from installing to the USB as if it were a
hard drive. or setting up a livecd with persistence (this would pair well
with a load to ram option for the livcd)
just depends on how big a Thumb drive you have, and how much persistence
you want.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 a
Hi All,
I have a spare desktop computer and monitor sitting in the garage that I
want to set up for my 10 year old son, but it doesn't have a hard drive.
I'd rather not have to buy another hard drive (even though they are
pretty cheap).
I've read somewhere that Linux can be run from a USB fl
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