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Re: Portable Debian?

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On 04/27/2016 02:10 PM, Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:43:08 -0400 Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com>
> wrote:
>> Do you still think I should go the mech drive route and not put it
>> on a USB key?
>>
>
> I've been happy with the drive, but as I said, I'm looking for a SSD
>  replacement soon. I've found typical USB sticks to be slow,

I use SanDisk Ultra Fit 16 GB USB 3.0 flash drives for system drives (a
poor man's SSD).  I really like the compact form factor -- very little
drive sticking out to break off.  Read performance is good, especially 
random reads -- boot, desktop startup, and application startup times are 
noticeably faster than 7200 RPM mechanical drives.  But, writes can 
cause Xfce to stutter (sometimes for several seconds).  I don't know if 
it's Xfce, X Windows, Linux, the flash drive, or what, but for $10 it 
works good enough for low-end servers.


> but something I haven't tried yet is one of the faster microSD cards
>  (class 10) in a USB reader. A Raspberry Pi is noticeably brisker
> with a class 10 card than with a typical class 4, but of course
> that's direct, not through USB.

My assumption has been that the insides of microSD cards and USB flash
drives are much the same.  I have an SD to USB adapter and my laptop has
an SD card port -- it would be interesting to run some benchmarks the
next time I buy an SD card.


> Also, even a 160GB hard drive (which mine is) is way ahead of even
> today's USB sticks in capacity, so it can store a fair amount of
> backup material as well.

The SanDisk Ultra Fit is available in 16, 32, 64, and 128 GB.


For my file server and my backup server, I put the Debian install on
SanDisk Ultra Fit 16 GB USB 3.0 flash drives and I put the data,
backups, etc., on 3 TB desktop drives in mobile docks.  Moving the
flash drive and HDD to another machine is easy.


David

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Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-25 12:30 +0200
  Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 16:20 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-25 20:20 +0200
      Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 21:30 +0200
        Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200
          Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200
            Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 21:50 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 23:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-28 05:20 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 00:10 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-05-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:00 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:30 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Oliver Briscbois <loki@zapto.roth.ca> - 2016-06-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-06-03 00:20 +0200
  Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-26 04:10 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200

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