Detailed (newbie) instructions? - was [Re: running Ubuntu off USB stick and retaining settings?]

[Goh Lip]

On Sun, 01 May 2011 00:11:29 +0800, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> I think it mostly depends on the USB stick if it is really faster. My
> (cheap) USB stick has a transfer rate of ~14MB/s for read operations and
> only ~2MB/s for write operations. My external USB disk is much faster
> with ~25MB/s for both read and write operations, at least for big files
> where there is no big search delay. OTOH, the hard disk is of course
> much bigger and heavier.

Ah, good to know that. Always under the impression that flash is faster;  
and to me, seems that way too. And read somewhere that for flash and  
external, at fstab to use 'noatime' rather that 'relatime' but I really  
cannot see any difference and don't know any specific advantages (other  
than saying something about write/journal/recheck process).

Thanks Nils - Goh Lip
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