Comments on: Poor man’s SSD: One week later

By: Poor man’s SSD: Of course, you know, this means war … « Motho ke motho ka botho

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:32:47 +0000

[...] Because nothing has happened. Everything works just the same as a conventional hard drive, only lighter, faster, cleaner, cooler and with less stress. [...]

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Favorite computer myths « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:22:31 +0000

[...] is 100 percent compatible, thus-far reliable, and the Pentium’s BIOS has never even blinked. Totally silent, totally heat-less and a speed improvement too. Go out there and get one of your [...]

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:38:15 +0000

It’s from early last year, but I found a thread about SSDs and which IO scheduler is best at http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1060090

By: technologyunit

technologyunit — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:33:36 +0000

Great Post. I had though about the idea of booting from a CF card ever since I saw a 32GB Compact Flash Card available in a Popular Photography Magazine. I said to my brother that I could replace my then 4 year old laptop’s harddrive with the thing through the express card slot. At the time I didn’t have the time or the money to do that kind of upgrade and since then I have had the fortune of getting a new Computer. I am glad that you have had such luck with the Idea. It was really infact your idea because you did it. I think that I will give this a try and post a video tutorial On my blog for people trying to install Ubuntu on netbooks or something.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:05:14 +0000

Perhaps that’s where I got the idea from.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:31:31 +0000

CF cards are fine for reliability. I have had two laptops running with the same setup, for several years. One failure ever, and was able to recover all the data (http://kmkeen.com/flash-recovery/).

In fact, I recommended CF-IDE to you almost a year ago, when you griped about 400MB drives.

Though IDE laptops are getting rare, and CF-SATA adapters are pricey, so the third machine is running from a micro SDHC card.

By: inknoir

inknoir — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:17:43 +0000

Hi, I am using a sd-card instead of my harddrive in my t101mt, which is running archlinux. Powerconsumption lowered from 7 W to 5 W (and even less without wlan). Its 100 % quiet and cool. Only drawback is problems with waking from card after sleeping, the whole system gets mounted readonly, probably my fault.
I would prefer to have a few more cardslots instead of a hdd or even sdd, seems cheaper and way more flexible.

By: vespas

vespas — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:08:46 +0000

I have found that telling the kernel to use elevator=noop at the grub prompt to avoid scheduling reads according to the requirements of rotating media dropped 6s from the boot time of my EEE pc.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:52:17 +0000

Desktops also are pretty quiet: I have a quiet Pentium 3-using PC from the late 90s (unsure of year and how it’s cooling itself) – only noise is from storage mediums. HD is loud, especially on startup, but CD is surprisingly quiet.

My other PC, a 2.4 Ghz Celeron box (2004, Pentium 4 generation, pretty use it has a fan) is also nearly quiet for all but a faint hum, even when accessing the disk.

By: crazybilly

crazybilly — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:39:25 +0000

Very cool. I’ve thought about doing something similar, but ran into all the problems you’ve mentioned, so I’m looking forward to seeing how this goes!