[Gllug] MiniPC with 2x NIC

[Andrew Farnsworth]

I believe he is talking about TRIM support which Linux didn't have at
first.  It really depends on the file system and settings.  Google for it
and you find that Ext4 and Btrfs support it (and maybe others) but you may
have to pass parameters.

Andy

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 7:51 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Solid State Disks not being fine with Linux???
> Do you mean with respect to wear levelling or something?
>
> On 04/04/2012, Robert <forums at binaryexistence.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 04/04/12 10:49, Tim Hughes wrote:
> >> I have been looking at getting one of these
> >> http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=40, a little expensive but designed
> >> for what you want. Their thin client is dual lan which is a bit odd
> >> for a thin client but would make a nice router
> >> http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=27 and is a fair bit cheaper
> >>
> > 1st link is nice but a bit too expensive for me when you start to add
> > storage etc to it.
> >
> > I like the 2nd link a lot. I just spent some time going through the
> > individual components and came up with a 2700 Atom + 2GB RAM, 60GB SSD
> > and a case for £13 more than the 2nd link, can be cheaper if you change
> > the drive out, but SSD just basically makes this a noiseless system.
> >
> > I believe SSD is fine with Linux now? I'm sure I briefly read something
> > a while back with there being problems.
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