Howard Passman;369222 Wrote: > I use a small drive to store my OS and SC on. My logic is I can back it > up only as often as I make changes on those applications and because > it's small, it backs up quickly and defrags quickly. The drop in > prices for SSD are great, but you need to make sure the one your > looking at is really better than your average, everyday HD. Some > aren't all that fast so you give up performance over noise. I'm not an > expert, but I think you still need to spend a fair amount to get a > usable size and performing SSD. For me, I could drop all of my files > on one with less than 15GB and be happy. The music files on the other > hand.......well, that will be a while :-) > > Howard
A cheap alternative to SSDs for booting your OS are USB flash drives. My OS for my slimserver boots Linux from an 8GB USB flash drive that I paid $25 for at Staples. I have 6GB left on the drive. You can get 16G USB flash drives cheaply too. I'm not sure how Windows would run on a USB flash drive though. Performance really isn't an issue since all of my data is on the hard drive and the USB drive isn't really hammered. It started out as an experiment, but it has worked out great. It's been up and running for a month now. With this configuration, the 2 SATA ports in my system are dedicated to 1TB drives holding just data - no need to waste one on a small HD to boot the OS. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.2.1, SqueezeSlave, and MusicIP (thanks to ghan for solution to seg fault issue!!). http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56217 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
