Chris Rowson wrote: >> 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? > You could except I doubt you can find sufficient space inside a eee case. From the photos I've seen the SSD consists for 4 soldered in chips. Much smaller than a 2.5 in drive, SSD or otherwise.
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