[ILUG] eee701 best distro

[Ivan Griffin]

You probably want to take a look at the Debian tips on Extending flash 
memory life:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePc/TipsAndTricks

But before that, you probably also want to look at 
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ssd_write_limit

NAND devices have a write endurance limit of erase/write cycles.
Most SLC NAND devices guarantee (conservatively) at least 100,000 cycles 
per physical block. However, you'll probably find that individual parts 
will vary anywhere between 100,000 and 1,000,000 times.

I'm curious if current SSD have SMART capabilities that can monitor the 
NAND write endurance of the device? - i.e. the depletion of the spare 
block pool is a good indication of getting close to the end for the 
device. (AFAIK, both HDDs and SSDs pre-emptively replace dodgy sectors 
with good ones form a spare pool during normal operation.  This is 
certainly the case for HDD, I don't have an SSD to check.)

But it seems to me that unless you have very non-typical usage patterns 
(constant R/W streaming - for example DVR type applications), you'll be 
find withouth worrying too much about the lifetime of your SSD.

Remember that your HDD devices have a limited number of writes too before 
sectors die or the bearings seize and the thing turns into spinning rust, 
you just don't hear those facts bandied about as much.

Cheers,
Ivan.

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Conor Wynne wrote:

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> Rob Gallagher wrote:
>> 2009/4/5 Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com>:
>>> So any suggestions to rescue it, or better alternatively, another distro
>>> which will work flawlessly with the WiFi.... coz xubuntu didn't conect,
>>> although I've since googled and you need to blacklist something or other.
>>>
>>
>> Try Easy Peasy (formerly eeeubuntu)
>>
>> http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
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>> rg
>>
>
> I've decided to go with fedora10 as the wifi works on th elive cd.
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> To save the hdd should I drop journaling and mount noatime or what?
> Along with disabling cron and anything else that writes to the disk.
>
> Opinions welcome
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