[ubuntu-uk] Solid State hard disks?

[Rob Beard]

Kris Douglas wrote:
> 
> 
> On 27/10/2007, *Rob Beard* <rob at esdelle.co.uk 
> <mailto:rob at esdelle.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Matthew Larsen wrote:
>      > SSD are very fast on spurious read / writes, but reading large files
>      > (or sequential reading) is very, very slow on them. Might be worth
>      > waiting until some stats come out about this before investing.
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      >
> 
>     Would another option be to setup a machine as a network boot client
>     (either running LTSP or a full Ubuntu install over a network)?
> 
>     I setup an LTSP server running on an old Athlon 1400 with about 640MB
>     memory, it worked really well with one of the clients being an old IBM
>     Aptiva P2-233 and a second client being an old 333MHz iMac G3, both
>     booting off the network.
> 
>     Kept my kids happy, they could browse the net, play games and use
>     things
>     like Tuxpaint and I could also limit their usage to during the day.
> 
>     Rob
> 
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> 
> Or, buy a band new SSD from Scan.co.uk <http://Scan.co.uk>. They are 
> actually optimised for use in laptops, they are the new solid state 
> drives, not just a CF card or what ever. These preform well when opening 
> large files.
> 
> http://scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=558789
> 

Ouch, bit expensive at the moment, but I guess give it a year and 
they'll probably be a fair bit cheaper.

Rob