<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/30 Travis Tabbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:travis@tabbal.net">travis@tabbal.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org" target="_blank">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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I'd just network boot, but I like to run the DB on the same drive as the OS,<br>
which I suspect is what most folks do. I'd rather not slow down the DB.<br>
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Never thought I'd see 40GB as the smallest drive I can buy.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote></div><div><br><br>I hear you. I tried network booting. While I can get it to work fine, I couldn't get the NVidia drivers to reliably work. They would work when I installed them, but after a reboot I was back to the fail-safe X. I finally got sick of messing with it and switched to the USB flash stick. It's not as fast as a modern HD, but it keeps up well compared to the 5400RPM drive I just installed. And they cost less than $20. I've only been running it for about 6 months, but I haven't seen any issues from wear. It only needs to be updated once in a while and I have it mounted with noatime. The logs probably hit the flash harder than anything else on the system, and I could use a remote syslogd I guess. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>For me it ends up with "who cares"? At $20 a pop, if it lasts for 1, 2 or 3 years before wear destroys it, I've gotten more than my money's worth. Just "dd" the flash card to an image once in a while to keep a good backup of it and when it dies, "dd" the image back to a new drive.<br>
<br>Kevin</div></div><br>