> > 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. > Cool, interesting stuff there. I never knew that you could buy drop in replacement 2.5" solid state drives. I guess that if the eee is using the same type of thing, you could (if you needed more space or your SSD broke) just put in a standard laptop hard drive then?
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