Hi all, Does anyone know where (whether?) it's possible to get solid-state "disks" in a format that has an IDE / SATA cable attached?
Let me explain the thinking: - A 4Gb solid state disk in an SD card format costs about £25 - A 4Gb solid state disk with a USB connector on it costs about £20 - Solid-state drives have increased massively in terms of "mean time between failure" over the last 4-5 years, to the extent that one could reasonably last "a few years" even as a working hard drive. - Ultra low power consumption - Zero noise - 4Gb is (just) enough to shoe-horn a copy of Ubuntu onto for a basic "web browsing" application Anyone else see where I'm going with this?... Low-power motherboard (Mini-ITX?) coupled with a solid state hard disk would be a fully functional, silent, low energy "web terminal"... exactly what the kids could use for their bedrooms! M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
