maggior;369255 Wrote: > 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.
I tried to do that with a san disk CF card, but somehow they stopped you from doing it on all relatively recent cards. I have a SATA interface for s CF card, do you have any suggestions for making it work? Again, I don't think it will work with Sandisk cards. Howard -- Howard Passman .....and still waiting for extra cradles.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56217 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
