[geeks] Those new mini-notebooks

[Nadine Miller]

Josh said SD, not SSD, though, so not sure if that's where he was  
going or not.

For me, since I'd likely be at least dual booting the box (Acer's  
forum has an extensive thread about OS X on the Aspire One), I would  
also go with the hard drive rather than SSD.  If I was giving it to a  
teenager or someone who is more rough on their portables, I'd probably  
go SSD.

As for SD, apparently some of the systems automatically "append" or  
"merge" or transparently mount the SD cards so they just look like a  
part of the "userland" file system.  Based on the thread in the Acer  
forum where I read that, there are some inconsistencies in the OS as  
well as the hardware as Nate mentioned.

=Nadine=

On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Nate wrote:

> SSD performance varies widely - for instance, the Acer Aspire One  
> with SSD could come with one of two different brands of SSD, and one  
> performs a lot better than another.  In linux, there's all sorts of  
> tuning you can do for SSD storage for better performance.
>
> It's pretty clear that SSD storage is still pretty immature, and it  
> really doesn't offer a significant advantage for me considering the  
> massive tradeoff in storage size, which is why I got an Aspire One  
> with a 128GB hard drive.  SSD will improve a lot in the next few  
> years, but until then, eh.
>
> - Nate
>
> On Sep 7, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>
>> On those assorted new tiny notebooks, like the most recently  
>> discussed
>> Dell Mini 9, are people using SD cards for additional mass storage?
>>
>> Is anyone anywhere testing the performance of various file systems on
>> SD cards to see what gets the most performance for someone who  
>> leaves a
>> 16gig card always installed?
>>
>> I'm curious as to what the best practices are here.
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