Chris Rowson wrote: > On 11/24/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:20:51PM +0000, James Grabham wrote: >>> If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards, >>> Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be >>> slow? >>> >> Yes. Not sure SD cards are not ideal for running an OS off of. They aren't >> quick and will not last long with many write operations. >> >> Cheers, >> Al. > > I did wonder about that. This PC uses a solid state drive. Is that not > similar to an SD card and hence will fail after x amount of write > operations?
Basic technology of SD cards, USB thumb drives, and SSDs are similar and all failures after x writes, although SSD with ware-leveling have predicted life spans in excess of HDD or so the Internet tells me. It's a big subject. Here are a few references to be getting on with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_memory_cards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive Just don't expect a £5.99 1G USB thumb drive to have similar life span and responsiveness to a $999.00 64G SSD recently announced. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
