On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, John Watlington <w...@laptop.org> wrote:
> > I would recommend that you use a class 6 or class 10 full size SD card for > this purpose. > One of the Sandisk Extreme III cards, for example. The extra cost is > worth it for the server. > There is a huge difference in card performance, especially for small file > writes, and > the new larger sized (8+GB) microSD cards tend to be especially bad. > > It's an 8 GB Patriot SDHC class 6, which has always been really snappy. I actually used an initial iteration of the XSXO for a couple of weeks last month for an extended "maintenance window" while I diddled around backing up, cleaning out the dust bunnies, and reinstalling my regular XS. My users couldn't tell the difference as far as Jabber went. I did have to make sure to not keep a local login up, as I had the XSXO on the floor in the pantry next to the DSL modem and the cats would walk on the XO's keyboard. "Darn it, cat, you're not root!" > Great write-up, by the way. > > Thanks! > wad > > Thanks! I've been meaning to get this set up in anticipation of winter storms and hoped others would find it useful. Not only as a power friendly backup, but it lowers the barriers to entry for running your own Jabber and Apache if you can't dedicate a "real" computer but do have an XO-1 and a spare SD card. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham
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