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If you are building a new front end and you had the choice 10 seconds or 32 seconds what would you choose?<BR>
Also if you compare compact flash to SSD then longevity and space ... chalk and cheese.<BR>
There is no comparison unless you are building on a tight budget.... even then SSD's are low 200's, SATA and work in any MB.<BR>
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Within 2 years all drives will be SSD's, next to no power consumption, no moving parts, 5-6 times the speed. Limited no only by size and price and these are going up and down in the usual directions like all IT hardware does.<BR>
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On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 15:18 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Stephen Worthington
<<A HREF="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</A>> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:10:42 +1200, you wrote:
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>>If you use an Intel SSD (solid state drive) it will be silent and boot
>>in around 10 seconds. I bought 40gb versions for around $225 ish ex GST
>>from memory. You want the Intel versions as other brands have
>>historically had longevity and performance issues (these issues may be
>>fixed now but why risk it).
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> Bootup time is no longer much of a problem with 10.4 anyway. I have a
> test install on my laptop (5400 rpm drive) and it boots all the way
> into mythfrontend (from the grub menu) in 32 seconds.
22 extra seconds is still a lifetime for a "consumer appliance". Then
again we are taught that you should never have to reboot a linux
box...
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