[ILUG] eee701 best distro

[Ivan Griffin]

Woops typo in first link - should be
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/TipsAndTricks

Cheers,
Ivan.



On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Ivan Griffin wrote:

>
> 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/
>>> 
>>> rg
>>> 
>> 
>> I've decided to go with fedora10 as the wifi works on th elive cd.
>> 
>> 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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