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Re: Better an USB-Stick or 2.5"-HD?



Just for a data point, I've been running Debian  etch on my NSLU2 for nearly 2 years of continuous service on the same 1 GB SanDisk USB stick partitioned with a 128MB swap partition and an ext3 root partition.  I have not had any problems due to flash wear out.  I've been using the Slug as a file server, sometimes bittorrent client, and web server.  It often needs to write to swap.  I had expected it to have problems by now, but it keeps on ticking.

-Geoff

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Glockenstein <neues.nx6c4@glockenstein.de> wrote:
Hello,
for testing I have used an 3.5"-HD, but if lenny becomes stable,
I will use a device which consumes less energy.
I would prefer a USB-Stick, but what I read about wear levelling
I do not really understand. If I have a swap partion on it, will the
swapping on the partition lead to writing on areas all over the disk
or all over the partition? Swapping in my current system uses 7-10MB
and I am not able to reduce it further. So is an USB-Stick possible
or should I prefer the 2.5"-HD? But I still have a problem with my
current hard disk (the problem with spinning up and down and the
system not working at the end of the boot process, which I reported
here some time before, what happens two times), but today after
the boot something new happened. Some time before there was
a beep sound added to the init scripts, and today the slug started
an endless beep, stopping the beep if I press the front button,
continues the beep if I stopped pressing it. Strange, what happened
to the hd now happens with the sound device. So the question
is, how can I decide something to avoid this behaviour and is the
type of the device important here?
Regards Michael


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