[ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram
Jim Kissel
jlk at osml.eu
Sat Nov 24 20:45:10 GMT 2007
Chris Rowson wrote:
> On 11/24/07, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> 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.
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