Am 08.11.2010 22:34, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Monday 08 November 2010 22:08:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J. >> Roeleveld >> >> did opine thusly: >>>> 2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough >>>> and the write performance is pathetic. >>> >>> You must have a lesser then then I've got? >>> I have quite decent read/write performance with the 16GB SSD in mine >>> (Asus EEE901) >>> I think it's a shame there aren't more Netbooks with SSDs. >>> Too many manufacturers and users tend to see these as small laptop- >>> replacements. These are meant for webbrowsing, email,... NOT to use to do >>> your doctorate... >> >> In all fairness to Acer, the SSDs in the A110 were early generation and >> improvements have been made. In the consumer grade, Intel is not too bad, >> Samsung is c...@p. And the early JMicron controllers were atrocious. >> >> Server grade disks are improving by leaps and bounds, but they are >> expensive and I don't see this filtering down to netbooks at this point in >> time yet. But I would be ecstatically happy to be proved wrong! >
Nope, netbooks with "good" hardware are still called subnotebooks and are sold for ten times the price of a netbook ;) > The one in mine gives me better performance then the ones that are usually > stuck inside consumer-grade laptops and the SD-card reader supports the > faster > SD-cards as well, which helps. > Another argument against SSD: They are usually very low in capacity. James wants to dual-boot. I don't know about Windows 7 but I found it very hard to keep Windows XP below 10 GB and still usable. The SSD in Acer Aspire Ones is 8 GB. Do they even sell Netbooks with SSD and Windows preinstalled? As an advice from an Aspire One user: It helps when you have a big "mothership" machine available. I keep photos, videos, portage tree, ccache and other non-essentials on a desktop machine, shared with NFS over WLAN. When I make a smaller `emerge --update --deep world`, WLAN and the SSD are fast enough (if you have enough RAM, you might want to try tmpfs). For larger actions like KDE updates, I hook it up with ethernet and also mount /var/tmp/portage via NFS to spare the SSD from too much I/O. BTW: KDE-4 without semantic-desktop works great on these, even with 512 MB RAM. :) It runs without Firefox or OpenOffice, though. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp
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