On Sep 7, 5:21 pm, Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip) > > I have seen a system kill a flash drive in just an hour or two. That > was a test where I used an IDE to CF card adapter. I used a general > consumer grade CF card and put a swap file on the CF card. Note that > putting a swap file on a flash drive is a bad thing to do and this was a > test to see if if would really fail, as I had read it would. > I have seen lots of reports of the solid state drives failing in the > field after 6 months or so of use. I think the problem is people > treating their SSD like a hard drive, but I have not seen good data on > this. I had one I ran for a couple of years with no problem. I was > careful with the setup on that system to be sure writes were minimized. > This is very interesting. One of the problems is that OS X uses a lot of "virtual memory", i.e. it writes a lot to the boot drive, less so if the machine has a lot of RAM, but it is still an important and unavoidable part of the operating system. If you don't have a lot of space on your boot disk your system might get very slow. If write speeds are slow, same problem. And wear and tear on a solid state boot drive would be pretty high on an X boot drive, as opposed to just a storage drive. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these are things to consider when cobbling together a solid state boot drive with X. Rich Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
