[Klug-general] Is the worm slowly turning?

[Martin A. Brooks]

Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> The EEE isn't specialist hardware, it's very generic x86 kit.
>>     
>
> Compared to a standard x86 machine now it is specialist, in that its low
> power, low Mhz, low memory compared to an ordinary off the shelf box.
>   

Mobile processors that go into all laptops, and even some servers now, 
are designed to be as power efficient as possible.  "low mhz" is pretty 
meaningless given most laptop processors have speed-stepping 
capability.  My EEE has 2Gb of memory.


> Its bottom of the line in other words, built out of hardware less suited to
> the current OS requirements.
>   

Err, rubbish.

> In itself SSD is specialist and requires a file system that does write
> minimilisation and ware leveling, neither of which are available in either
> of microsofts file system formats.
>   

I think you'll find FAT32 is a perfectly well suited filesystem for SSDs.

Regards



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