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I am thinking about buying a card like this one
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ME:B:WNA:US:12
at 40MB/s, it's a hell of a lot faster then my HDD in my laptop, and it has enough space for me to put the OS on it
I just concerned about how long it will last. I can't find any documentation on sandisk's site about how many rewrites it can handle.
any thoughts?
thanks in advanced,
Byan
If it's the same storage medium as their USB flash drives, it's durable enough. i have a few of those that I use almost daily, they're almost three years old already. If that's the case, by the time this wore out a replacement would cost half of today's price and have twice the capacity. It might be slowed down some by the bus connection if you connect via USB, though.
Interesting idea.
it won't be via USB, I have a built-in CF that I beleive is connected directly to the southbridge. I should look this up though.
I am gonna have to do some.. research about how things writing to the HDD alot in linux. I plan on removing the swap partition (it's the linux equiv of a page file for those who don't know) as it isn't used ever and moving anything that is gonna want to write alot to the actual HDD. which is probably firefox.. and other stuff like that
You will need to look up how many read writes the card supports Ive an inkling you could burn it out pretty quickly.OSs that are designed to run from thumb drives usually use the system ram for read/writes to prevent such degradation occouring.
I wonder if I can find a distro of linux made for this.Quote:
Originally Posted by 104456
the laptop has 1.25gigs of ram.. I am sure I could spare a bit of it for a tmpfs
Funny you should mention I came across this link not an hour ago :D
Installing Ubuntu Linux on a usb pendrive
and amongst the comments is this site:
www.pendrivelinux.com
lol, ok, I'll take a look