Re: reduce write access to hard disk [solved - sort of]

2005-11-02 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
Dear all, thanks for your suggestions on how to prolong the live of my flashdisk by reducing write access to it. It seems, the laptop mode, as proposed by some of you, does not work as expected, at least I get some error messages when starting up the laptop mode. I assume, the flash disk does n

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 23 2005, Bill Marcum wrote: > Are you aware of the "noatime" mount option, which you could put in > /etc/fstab? You could also use a non-journaled filesystem, such as > ext2. In the same spirit of your recommendation, this is a document that I wrote quite a while ago, when trying to boost

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:12:07PM +0200, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Dear all, > I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of > the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. > I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of write cycle

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Jonathan. On Oct 23 2005, Jonathan Schmitt wrote: > Now, I've once used noflushd on a notebook, which somewhat does, what > I want, however, with every read cycle also writes are performed. As far as I know, noflushd or similar tools are deprecated and the 2.6 kernels should use "laptop mode"

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Jonathan Schmitt
> >"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dear all, >> I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part >> of >> the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. >> I'm aware, that flash cards have only a lim

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Joe Smith
"Jonathan Schmitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, I'm currently trying to build a low power/low noise computer and as a part of the concept, I would like to use a flash card as the main storage. I'm aware, that flash cards have only a limited amount of w

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:06:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What's the power consumption of dram compared with a conventional hard > drive? > > Regards, Max > Considerably less. Andy > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: reduce write access to hard disk

2005-10-23 Thread m
What's the power consumption of dram compared with a conventional hard drive? Regards, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]