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Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block?

From druck <news@druck.org.uk>
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Subject Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block?
Date 2015-09-13 12:37 +0100
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On 06/09/2015 18:20, James Harris wrote:
> Would you add a SATA drive? If so, what for?

Vastly faster and more reliable I/O.

SD cards may have high headline transfer speeds for large sequential 
transfers by they are far slower than a modest laptop drive for the 
small random transfers which you get when using them as the primary disc 
for an OS.

SD cards are also quite unreliable, and often fail catastrophically 
without notice when used as primary storage. They have far less 
sophisticated write buffering an wear levelling than an SSD.

I'd probably put a cheap small SSD on for the OS, and a large spinning 
rust drive to use as a NAS.

---druck

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A new (and better?) kid on the block? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:14 +0100
  Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 12:40 +0100
    Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2015-09-06 17:38 +0100
      Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-06 18:13 +0100
        Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-06 18:27 +0100
      Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 18:20 +0100
        Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-09-08 00:44 +0000
          Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@home.no> - 2015-09-08 18:18 +0200
            Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 18:23 +0100
        Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-09-13 12:37 +0100
          Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-13 11:39 -0400
            Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 11:45 -0400
              Re: A new (and better?) kid on the block? Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-09-13 17:45 +0100

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