USB drive on server?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Oct 26 12:36:44 UTC 2007


Ted Marshall wrote:

> The result is that the flash drive will burn out much faster than the
> statistics quoted.  How much faster, I am unable to compute.  It may still
> be adequate for your needs.  I don't know.

I was looking again at the specs for the OLPC machine
at <http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml>
and I see that this states explicitly "Drives: No rotating media".
As far as I can see it has a 1GB flash drive.

As I understand it, this machine - do any actually exist? - runs Linux.
I wonder if this Linux is specially adapted in some way to use flash drives?

I see the Asus Eee PC (perhaps a virtual machine?) also uses a flash drive
according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Storage>.

I'm still puzzled by the two entirely different takes on flash drives -
on the one hand, developments like OLPC seem to take them for granted,
while on the other people say they will have a short life.







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