On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
Also, a USB stick will wear out a lot quicker if it's used as a root filesystem with /tmp.
Well, I've been waiting for Samsung F2FS for a long time, but still no boot support AFAIK http://www.techspot.com/news/50428-samsung-creates-flash-friendly-open-sourc...
on the rotating drive. Note that a real SSD can go about twice as fast as a SATA 2 port, which is probably what you have on your machine, but it will still be dramatically faster than a USB stick.
But there are USB 3.0 sticks too, the difference is narrower then than USB 2.0 ports :)
FC