On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 15:56:50 -0700 Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 01:04:19PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> here is the best part: I plugged it into the Thinkpad and booted to >> it. Not only did it boot, but there was not even the slightest >> hiccup. I expected the video at least to be messed up, but the >> screen came up exactly as it looked on the Bonobo Extreme. >Hijacking the thread back, yes, this is the way Linux works, and >for those of us who migrate hourly between different models of >laptops and desktops, The One True Way. The display on the old >Thinkpad X60 I am using now has lost sync three times in the last >two months - I am about to swap drives to the spare X60, with >the pesky nuisance of upgrading /etc/dhcpd.conf, perhaps 10 minutes >of work total. So far I have had four Linux computers, and all have had nVidia graphics. I suspect that I might have had more difficulty if one of the two had used a different video chip. But one thing I have learned from this - from now on / and /home will be on different partitions on an mSATA SSD drive. Not only does this vastly improve the speed of the computer, but since I now have an mSATA USB enclosure I can boot my computer anywhere there is a computer that lets me boot to a USB drive. >I don't know what format John's SSD drive takes, but you can run >two SATA drives on the larger thinkpads, because you can put one >in an Ultrabay. An external USB case is OK, too, but USB2 is >kinda slow. Yes, the mSATA enclosure is USB 3.0, but the Thinkpad is only 2.0. Interestingly, it seems a bit faster than when I ran Ubuntu 12.04 on it. I know the hard drive on the Thinkpad is the fastest SATA-2 drive I could get when I bought it, but Lenovo throttled the SATA-2 controller on the T-61 to SATA-1 speeds. I don't know if there is a way to figure out a real world comparison of an SSD drive via USB 2.0 vs. a SATA-1 drive. I say "real world" because it's not just straight throughput; seek times, for example should be worlds faster on the SSD. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
