On 18 February 2010 14:49, <u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de> wrote: > I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a manifold > increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses <<10W. Are > there any brands of USB sticks that other users can recommend that are > more resilient? Or what mass storage device can you recommend that uses as > little power as possible?
As already suggested, an USB 2.5" HD could consume an acceptable amount of energy... > I've also been thinking about getting a SheevaPlug or its newly announced > successor GuruPlug and using the internal SD card as mass storage. Does SD > have less problems that USB sticks when used instead of a harddisk, or > would I run into the same issues? SDs are not good from this point of view; if you refer to the flash disk inside the sheeva, I don't know how many write cycles it's supposed to stand, but if it breaks then you can't change it. Moreover, it's only 512M I think, not really much for a debian install. OTOH, 512M of ram could let you mount many directories as tmpfs, avoiding disk writes altogether. Cheers, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e9568871002180647u19d238caqd4145cf13269a...@mail.gmail.com
