From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PQ9OQ-00018a-7D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:04:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98891E07D5 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 02:04:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue-labs.org (colt.blue-labs.org [72.34.249.230]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B79E077C for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2010 01:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:d:3de:f888:29ff:fe74:b936] (nibbler6.blue-labs.org [IPv6:2001:470:d:3de:f888:29ff:fe74:b936]) (authenticated user=david bits=0) by colt.blue-labs.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oB81HMK9012615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2010 20:17:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4CFEDD31.6000304@blue-labs.org> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:19:45 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101112 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] SATA on Pandaboard? References: <4CFBBEAE.30600@tampabay.rr.com> <20101207191438.9500.qmail@stuge.se> <4CFEA04C.4000103@tampabay.rr.com> <20101207214226.30974.qmail@stuge.se> <4CFED298.8030200@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <4CFED298.8030200@tampabay.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-BlueLabs: david is authenticated X-Archives-Salt: 80bd1944-84f4-489a-8fc7-c4ae8224af2c X-Archives-Hash: 88039247752cad9115484ebcf33843d9 On 12/07/10 19:34, wireless wrote: > [... > You've got to be kidding me? I posted on Gentoo user a few > days ago (NOV 8th) about a netbook. The resounding number > one issue is avoid SSD and get a mechanical HD! > > "Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also > not enough and the write performance is pathetic. " from another pretty smart person - and an empirical relationship. i have a dell w/ an SSD drive. have had it for a year now. it goes -everywhere- with me, daily. physically, it's been dropped, kicked, whacked, you name it. the SSD drive is still cruising along nicely. for r/w workload, i run gentoo on it and do nightly ~x86 updates. so the only rest it gets is the short period between finishing nightly updates and when i grab it and hit the road. the only time it gets shut off is if i happen to run out of battery every few months. it's not the same as a 15K drive, but then, it's not a 15K drive. unless you want to pay really outlandish prices, you won't find that type of speed on a laptop. it would eat batteries like bot snacks. the really smart thing is to really know what sort of hardware you get/have, and understand how to pick $better kernel driver vs. $generic_fallback thingie. you can't expect even a performance drive to operate smashingly if you're loading the generic i-can-just-barely-make-it-work driver :)