JJZolx wrote: > That's good to know. I don't recall seeing it mentioned before.
Well, as John has already answered it is a recent addition. JJZolx wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I expect most people who intend to attach a SATA > drive will be using an HDD, not an SSD, as its main use would be music > storage, and SSD just isn't very cheap for the kind of storage that many > people need. > Most people can do, and use whatever they want to. People will need to have done their own homework on power requirements. I want to run the board and the drive from a single 5V power supply and have it in a single enclosure, without having to be concerned about ventilation. Use a HDD and even assuming it uses 5V for the spindle motor, you need to make sure that you have the power requirements covered. SSD == low power. SSD == zero noise. SSD == low heat. I doubt I come into the "most people" category. Not too many people have a rack full of servers under the stairs at home. ;) In any event, I have no intention of having storage on the device for media. Always has been and remains my intention that the music library is network attached. JJZolx wrote: > > I've seen it mentioned several times on the Wandboard mailing list that > using a class 10 card makes a world of difference. > Yes, compared to a Class 4 card. But another world of difference using a HDD/SSD. No-one needs to use a HDD for a Player. For a server as well, my recommendation was already that you put /var onto a HDD rather than sdcard. JJZolx wrote: > > When a SATA drive is present, will the system have to boot from the > drive instead of the microSD card, or how will that work? The board will always boot from the sdcard. The uboot and the /boot partition remains on the sdcard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98544 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
